Rust never sleeps

[The emperor has no clothes]

It seems my first year of retirement started with promise. But lately it seems all I’ve done is home repair and remodel. Me being a hacker results in many trips to Ace Hardware, Lowe’s, and Home Depot. I cut and glued a PVC system for our automatic pool waterer. I hooked into a plant watering system that’s been their for years. To make a long story shorter the ball valve failed. So off to Lowe’s again. Figured I’d take the bike since I hadn’t even ridden it in a week. As I follow a SnowBird to the intersection he’s going really slow and the light changes as I’m ready to make the right turn. He is going so slow that the light just turning red from yellow as he makes the turn. I decide to go ahead, which makes no sense, as I have nothing but time. I start the turn and look left to make sure no cars are coming. Well, as I turn my head back right I realize I had slowed too much because of the SB, and I was headed for the curb. Thankfully I goosed it enough to upright it and went on my way. It must have looked like a complete rookie move. I dust off my pride and head off to Lowe’s. As I’m leaving the parking lot making a sharp left, I give it a little too much throttle. Again it must have looked pretty rookie.

 I’ve got to ride more. 

[Patrick]

At least you caught the mistakes, shows experience. A rookie may not have caught up in time.

[Sorcerer]

Rookies usually face plant. Like the middle aged lady at a beginner MSF course. Slow speed tip over resulting in a broken leg.

[hubcapsc]

Again it must have looked pretty rookie.

You probably looked like the president of the AMA compared
to me trying to make it home without a clutch on Friday...

-Mike

[cookiedough]

at least you did not tip it over so all good.   I do not care what I look like to others as long as get there back and forth safely is the key. 

[Avanti]

While traveling two up last fall I pull into a small gas station and as I make the turn to the one and only pump there are two underground fuel tank covers which were right in my path. The covers were about two feet across and looked about 6 inches high and I am on gravel. To miss them I had to go heavy on the throttle and straighten up the bike and then slam on my brakes to keep from going into the street.
After filling up and it is pay inside only, I go in. Man behind the counter takes my money and hands it back to me and says, first one not to fall over. I thank him and ask him if he can give me the years  back that I lost and the ones my wife is going to remove over the next few hundred miles. He laughed and said that is what the free gas is for. Just keep reminding her about the free gas.