WS6
11-20-2009, 07:50 PM
So Wednesday night, I was going to make a different post saying how much I hate wet leaves. I decided I didn't care enough, lol. Today though, I need to explain why. So, I've been living in a house for a few years now. I've been riding a motorcycle daily for over 3. This particular house has many trees that produce many many leaves. The drive way also happens to be sloped towards the house. It rained here on Wednesday and there were lots of leaves on the driveway. I knew this as I was coming into the driveway and I was slowing down and taking the precautions I always do as I pull into the driveway, swing to the right, stop, and back up to the left to back the bike into the garage. Well, apparently I wasn't going slow enough. Before I can even lean to turn to the right, the front bars lock right and down I go thinking this f-ing sucks. I slide and the bike slide downhill towards the house. Now, I was only going maybe 7 or 10 mph so I know I'm perfectly fine and I wear a textile jacket. But it was still embarrassing. Luckily it was dark and the neighborhood was quite. Obviously I am pissed but there's nothing to do but pick myself and the bike up and hope it didn't do anything serious. It didn't, everything's fine actually. Thank you frame sliders and I'm so glad I ride a naked bike.
Anyway, I decide I'll rake the driveway now because I'm not interested in this happening again. Driveway gets raked and I go inside with a bruised ego and upper thigh.
Today, I am coming home from school like always and it's dark again. No rain this time so no worries. I go to pull into my driveway but stop. Someone has removed the leaves that have blown back onto the driveway in pretty much the exact path I take coming in and turning right to then stop and back up the bike. I'm thinking who did this? Only one of my roommates was home when I wrecked and he didn't even hear me. I looked around when it happened and thought no one saw me. Nobody called out to me to ask if I was alright or even came out of their house to see what the noise was when it happened. (I figure a 400lb motorcycle hitting a concrete driveway would make a good thud) Not only that but how do they know almost exactly the path I take when pulling into my driveway to park the bike? I asked both my roommates if they did it and they both said no. The one roommate told me our neighbors to the left were raking leaves today though when she came home. So the only thing I can think is that maybe they heard me fall and today cleaned my driveway again. They are a nice young couple and he rides as well. My neighbors to the right are the *******s who tried to steal my identity. If it was one of them, I'd be more blown away by this than I could imagine. It may have been the neighbors across the street too though. I honestly haven't a clue. I'm going to have to go visit and find out. It's instances like this that help me hold on to my belief that while the world is f-ed up and there's a lot of crappy people out there, there are a lot of good people out there as well.
Anyway, I decide I'll rake the driveway now because I'm not interested in this happening again. Driveway gets raked and I go inside with a bruised ego and upper thigh.
Today, I am coming home from school like always and it's dark again. No rain this time so no worries. I go to pull into my driveway but stop. Someone has removed the leaves that have blown back onto the driveway in pretty much the exact path I take coming in and turning right to then stop and back up the bike. I'm thinking who did this? Only one of my roommates was home when I wrecked and he didn't even hear me. I looked around when it happened and thought no one saw me. Nobody called out to me to ask if I was alright or even came out of their house to see what the noise was when it happened. (I figure a 400lb motorcycle hitting a concrete driveway would make a good thud) Not only that but how do they know almost exactly the path I take when pulling into my driveway to park the bike? I asked both my roommates if they did it and they both said no. The one roommate told me our neighbors to the left were raking leaves today though when she came home. So the only thing I can think is that maybe they heard me fall and today cleaned my driveway again. They are a nice young couple and he rides as well. My neighbors to the right are the *******s who tried to steal my identity. If it was one of them, I'd be more blown away by this than I could imagine. It may have been the neighbors across the street too though. I honestly haven't a clue. I'm going to have to go visit and find out. It's instances like this that help me hold on to my belief that while the world is f-ed up and there's a lot of crappy people out there, there are a lot of good people out there as well.