I like this story. A car in a driveway crossed into my path as I was riding down a Denver area bike path, and although I was injured we handled the situation cordially, and the driver of the car and I still exchange Christmas cards 21 years later.

But what's especially cool for the OP is no serious injury. We will all have a crash or two during our cycling career. I heard from one source that a serious cyclist will probably hit the turf about once every three years. Personally I have had crashes at about once every 8 or 9 years. What's cool is that the OP got through one of his "required" crashes without serious injury. One day in 2003 I was blitzing through a shopping center parking lot and hit a speed bump at speed (which was probably 12? 13? mph) and was unceremoniously tossed to the pavement. After I stood up and realized nothing was broken, I felt soooooo relieved and said to myself "I'm glad I got that out of the way!" The only thing that hurt was my pride because it happened right in front of a big Pizza joint and there was a large audience peering through the windows at me lol