I gather you were being facetious. So was I.

In all seriousness, I started this thread at a time when I wasn't sure if I was feeling vulnerable or immortal out there on the road. I'd been reading so much about people being clipped, doored, mailboxed, and every other imaginable thing, yet I felt so far from the slightest possibility of getting hit on my bike. I was wondering if there was some minor detail about the way I was approaching the road that might make the difference between life and death some fateful day, and it turns out a lot of the people who have had unfortunate meetups with automobiles were just riding along, doing the right thing, as I feel I am always doing.

Scary...