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Old 06-25-09, 08:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
I rolled up to a restraunt the other day and a guy says to me, "You really need to get a flag. I see you guys out there all of the time and somebody is going to run over you.

I guess he was tryng to tell me that he has super vision but a lesser individual wouldn't.
Similar story, I was riding my V-Rex in the country. The V-Rex had a big yellow fairing. Up comes a little old lady who was wearing coke-bottle glasses; you know, the kind that magnifies her eyes to look twice as big. She pulls alongside me at a stop sign and says something to the effect that I was hard to see. I asked how far back she'd noticed me, and the answer was, "oh, about a mile."

So a little old lady who was probably functionally blind without her 2-inch-thick glasses saw me from a mile away, but I was 'invisible.'
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