Returning from SWOKZ Rally

[koolaid_kid]

Saturday I was returning from the rally on my GS1100E. I had just spent an hour riding through some significant rain. It was no longer raining, but the roads were wet. I was on I74, approaching the intersection of I74 and 465. The road y-ed, 465s on the left, 465n on the right (my lane), with no one in front of me. On my left (465s lane), ahead of me, was a convoy of car, car, 16 wheeler, car, 16 wheeler, car.
Something did not look right to me, so I held off and stayed behind them. A beat up Celica then decided to pull in behind me and try to push me. I resisted, still feeling uneasy about the convoy. Sure enough, the trailing 16 wheeler went over the solid white lines right into my lane, just a little in front of me. If I had accelerated as I should have, or let the Celica push me, I would have been right beside the 16 wheeler, out of his line of vision.
Whew. After merging with 465n, the Celica whipped past me, obviously miffed at my not allowing him to push me. Tough, buddy.

 

[marvinsc]

That's the kind of instincts that Keep You around to attend more Rides George, Good Call!

 

[spyug]

As Magnum PI used to say, " You have to listen to your inner voices".

I agree and it looks like you do as well. Over the years, I'v done a lot of reading on the subject of precognition to give it one name. Most experts put it down to awarness of situation combined with a wealth of life experience. Your mind draws on stored knowledge and tries to apply it to the present situation and when things don't fit...the bells go off.

It has saved my bacon a time or two and I never go against my inner voice ( I used to have "voices" but the meds cleared that up \\/)

Seriously, you did the right thing. Hopefully more of us will learn from your lesson.

Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
spyug.

 

[Planecrazy]

Glad you missed an unhappy date with disaster, George!

See you next month in Fennimore!