it's funny how 5 days out of 7, i do have close calls...i don't even really mention them to people anymore because they're too routine. it's funny also how i have people talk to me about my bike a lot as well. in the past 24 hours...a guy backed out of a parking garage at 15mph in a way that suggested he hadn't looked behind him. i had to swerve into a lane of traffic that was luckily open to avoid getting hit. i told him to watch what he was doing, and he told me not to "come around the corner like that", which is funny because the parking garage was halfway down the block, so he would have had plenty of time to see me if he'd even looked. not to mention that people come around corners all the time and people coming around corners is no damn excuse for backing into them.

anyway, in the past 24 hours, i've had only one major thing and a lot of times where i was paying more attention than the drivers and avoided accidents. i've also had about 6 or 7 people comment positively on my bike in that same time. interesting mix, eh?