I wasn't hurt as much as my car. I was just pointing out that sometimes you just can't do anything about what's going to get you. I'm not vindictive, I just want my car fixed and my shoulder's doing well so it's cool. Yesterday I went on a >100 mile poker run for the MDA. So all is cool... 8) AND I kept in mind the tidbit about not standing at intersections in neutral.
There were about 250 HDs, 1 MotoGuzzi, 1 BigDog, a couple BMWs, a half dozen or so big metric cruisers, a couple old inline four UJMs from days of yore and 2 count'em two- Savages.
A friend's wife rides a 2004 Sportster and keeps ragging about me not riding a HD. I finally told her that I can pay cold cash today for any Sportster in that Harley dealers's. That I can finance without a hitch any bike they sell. That I researched Harley, Honda, Kaws, Yahama's and Suzuki's, new and used. I never felt that the HD had anything to offer other than membership in self-congratulatory "fraternity" of suckers that are willing to way too much for way too little. That I was considering the Volusia, Ace or 800 Drifter until I found out about The Thumper. From that point on that is what I pursued until I found one, and I bought -it-. I got exactly what I wanted, rather than what someone else told me I should buy.
I think she's pissed at me now.