Post by sillylittleboy on Jul 15, 2016 22:55:44 GMT -5
My bad week was last week and I didn't incite anything and didn't even have a chance to say anything. I was cruising down a 4-lane split boulevard on my 150cc scooter around 6:45 AM last Wednesday morning. I was heading to my local convenience store for my usual breakfast sandwich and donut when all of a sudden a car shot out from a side street and onto this main road right in front of me. I have to accept a little blame on this one, because I wasn't as focused or observant as I should have been. This sudden appearance of a vehicle turning right into my path startled me much more than it should have done, which then caused me to respond a bit too much and a bit too far as I swerved to avoid the crash. The next thing I saw was my front wheel hitting the curb/medium that divided the northbound lanes from the southbound lanes.
I don't recall exactly what happened next or it may have been that I wasn't exactly there to remember, because my next memory was of me getting strapped down to a board on a gurney and then getting loaded into an ambulance. I do remember being concerned about what the police would do with my scooter. Hats off to Des Moines' Finest for walking my scooter a couple of blocks down the road and parking it right out front of my place.
As you can see from photo, I wasn't looking real handsome after this accident. I live in Iowa and we don't have a helmet law, but my daughter and my grandkids (twins - boy and a girl aged 4 years) aren't going to allow me to ride again without proper head protection. It's kind of hard for me to argue with them, especially since I came pretty close to busting my head open like a rotten pumpkin.
Damage to my scooter: a couple of cracked and broken body panels (cost=$100) and the steering stem triple-tree has one side that is bent and twisted (cost=$65). So $165 in parts (free shipping for over $100) and some serious healing of my head, face, left arm (road rash), and right knee (twisted/sprained it bad) and it'll all be better or as much better as it can be.
Sorry to say, Jerry, but I think your week was pretty good in comparison to mine, but I'll let you be the judge of that. Keep in mind that this photo was taken nearly a week after it happened. This is me starting to look a LOT better.
I don't recall exactly what happened next or it may have been that I wasn't exactly there to remember, because my next memory was of me getting strapped down to a board on a gurney and then getting loaded into an ambulance. I do remember being concerned about what the police would do with my scooter. Hats off to Des Moines' Finest for walking my scooter a couple of blocks down the road and parking it right out front of my place.
As you can see from photo, I wasn't looking real handsome after this accident. I live in Iowa and we don't have a helmet law, but my daughter and my grandkids (twins - boy and a girl aged 4 years) aren't going to allow me to ride again without proper head protection. It's kind of hard for me to argue with them, especially since I came pretty close to busting my head open like a rotten pumpkin.
Damage to my scooter: a couple of cracked and broken body panels (cost=$100) and the steering stem triple-tree has one side that is bent and twisted (cost=$65). So $165 in parts (free shipping for over $100) and some serious healing of my head, face, left arm (road rash), and right knee (twisted/sprained it bad) and it'll all be better or as much better as it can be.
Sorry to say, Jerry, but I think your week was pretty good in comparison to mine, but I'll let you be the judge of that. Keep in mind that this photo was taken nearly a week after it happened. This is me starting to look a LOT better.