I did something REALLY stupid while out on a ride yesterday. To make it worse, I did it with my bride on the back. I am embarrased to post this as I always consider myself the safest of safe scooter riders. But, I want to let everybody know if for no other reason but a reminder. It was a beautiful day here yesterday. We had been out for 3-4 hours. Stopped by the lake, had lunch, went downtown and enjoyed the people and festevities and were out just enjoying the ride. I came upon a line of cars that was backed up for at least 1/2 mile. All these cars were in the left lane trying to exit on I-35 south. I was west bound with 3 other lanes basically open. Like a idiot, I stayed in the lane right next to the traffic back up. My lane was completely open and I was driving 65 MPH when of course the obvious happened. A car decided to get out of the 5 MPH traffic and of course the "person" did not look, just pulled out in front of us. I was fortunate enough to be paying attenion and quickly hard to the right into the next lane. Luckliy no other cages there, at least not right there. Of course the "person" see's me and returns to her lane causing more caos. Bottom line is I had NO business being where I was under the circumstances. Any sensible rider would have been out of harms way, and 99% of the time I would have been. I was too busy enjoying the ride and became very stupid. It was almost predictable what happened. I feel very dumb but thank God it all turned out ok. I am way more upset at me than I am the cage. Bottom line is this, never let your gard down. I would have sworn I would not have been in that situation but I was. I have been reminded to stay smart, I hope you have been too. With my bride of 30 years too, what a dummy. :small3d023: