Just admit it, wheel. You screwed up. Learn from it.

I nearly hit a kid on a bicycle the other day. I was coming up to a stop sign and was planning to roll through the crosswalk (and stop beyond it). A kid rode off the sidewalk out from behind a building and we were suddenly on a collision path. I hit the brakes. He hit the brakes. We both stopped. Neither of us was hurt and we both went on our way, embarassed but unharmed.

He shouldn't have ridden off the sidewalk like that but he's a kid. I screwed up and my behavior is the only thing I can change. I should have known better. Maybe next time I'll come up to that intersection a little more cautiously. I re-learned something that I already knew. Hopefully, the kid learned something, too (but, then, I can't really control that).

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