D`oh!

That was my personal "record" today!

I´m on the way home, heading on the road towards a traffic light - a green one. One that marks the highest point on my route, I´m pushing uphill, I don´t wanna loose any energy on the way. From the other side of the road a "Hello Pizza"-delivery car turns into my lane, before me, all is good. But... before Hello Pizza is a guy from Wolfenbuettel, the number-plate hence begins with "WF". Hello you guys, stay in your town, will ya? Oh-so-often they seem to be overwhelmed by traffic!

And so it happens. Hello Pizza is in a hurry. WF slows down with no reason (lots of cars? Traffic lights? The combination of those?).

Accident #1: Hello Pizza bumps with a loud bang into WF who comes to a total halt.

By overtaking I see no damage, must´ve been plastic on plastic, bumper against bumper, so to say. I´m nearly on the cycle way, have a bad-gut-feeling.

Nearly accident #2: WF has a wife and she is keen on seeing for herself what happened! Have a look backwards first to check if the way is clear? Nope. Maybe in WF they have no cyclists? She nearly wipes me off the bike by opening the door WIDE. Hello?! That was close!

Autumn is there, it´s getting dark earlier, so I have the flashing lights on. Seems they are still not bright and flashing enough for some!

Nearly accident #3: I wanna cross a road, a car want´s to turn right and sees me in the last sec! We both manage to stop in time.

I´m nearly home. In this area the rule is: The person to your right has right of way. No matter what as long as it´s a vehicle that is allowed on the road.

Nearly accident #4: That darn, stupid ### DID see me, looked me straight in the eye and simply crossed the road. Thank you dumbass!

I´m home safely, the phone rings, it´s Ingo, saying, hey you just passed me, I was waving, didn´t you see me?
Nope. Had my eyes on the road. (And no, reason of the call was not an accuse for not waving back, but to question if I need something from Aldi round the corner).

Man. Guess it really is time again to wear the helmet. I know I should do so always. But after the gym with wet hair (from showering!), a cap is so handy...

Am I glad nothing happened to me today - the day started straight away with D`oh! ...

I had on: green shirt, green earrings, even the socks were green (that was coincidence, though). I´m just outta house and realize, D`oh! I still wear the orange glasses instead of the green ones (scrolling down a bit needed) :-( Argh!

Have to add... Didn´t know D'oh! was really created by the Simpsons!

Ingo´s helmet is better than mine - we made it fit to my size, my head + a woolen cap - Ingo´ll be gone to rehab and meanwhile I´ll look for a better one for me...
Thanks guys, for telling me how lucky (and stupid) I was - you helped turn me into a helmet-guy, one of the still rather rare species over here!