Well, it seems to me that you don't have to worry much about complacency, which I think can get a lot of people in the end.

I also read a lot of stuff about bike/car/pedestrian collisions and the comments that come out of them. I'm mainly interested in not doing what the guy who got hit did. I like to read the comments to gauge where the bike haters are, and how the "War on Cars" is going. What a stupid term huh?

This being said, I wouldn't stress it too much. Race your own rac... I mean commute your own commute.

As for what I was thinking the last few seconds before the last time I got hit... "Whew she missed me." This was right before she swerved over and got me. Turns out all she was thinking about was a bucket of Kentucky Fried (it was all over the inside of the car).

C'est la vie, the doc did a good job putting my ear and scalp back together, and like we used to say in the service: "chicks dig scars"