That's such an easy bear trap to step in. It's a good reminder to Not be so certain that someone is gonna do something just because they start to.
You, on a bike, realize that the visibility is sketchy there.
In a car, belted in, surrounded by cage, it might be pretty easy to think about going and be forced to abort at the last instant.
But I guess you know that now.
Glad your old Ass didn't get injured and thanks for the reminder.

I am glad you got away basically undamaged.

That one is sooooooo easy to step in.  You see the person in front of you accelerate away, and assume they are going to keep going as there is no reason to slow down or stop - but they do!

Glad you made it out with the limited damage to you and the bike.
I have committed that sin in a vehicle a few times and it is one that just jumps up and bites you.

VERY glad you weren't injured, Raydawg. Could have been much worse.

It happens to the best of riders. Glad your ok , your man enough to admit it . Tell me you didn't even get a run in your nylons !  

6 years, about 40,000 would be a fair guess.

I've had one bike incident and one full accident and both times they happened in a split second.  Time does move slowly as the thing happens and reactions may or may not have time to happen, but you can see things as they happen whether you can do anything about them or not.
I had one car accident 1975 and the detailed mind photo is still there.
I hit black ice and was sliding with no control at all and closing on the vehicle in front.  I knew I would hit him and remember bracing my arms on the wheel...the next instant was impact as my chest hit the steering wheel center and my neck the top of the wheel.  I did not feel or even know that my hands smashed into the dash and my knees into the bottom of it.
The very next moment was after impact when I could not breath, I unbuckled and rolled out of the car and was on my knees trying to get breath back into my lungs.
In '75 I was a young 27 and was very strong and had superb reflexes.  I fully expected to be able to hold myself back with my arms...foolish youth I was.  Even with the surge of adrenaline at that moment and a closure rate of about 35 mph the impact was so sudden and strong I might as well have just been sitting there doing nothing.

My bike accident was a sudden thing as well.  Riding normally one instant then the next seeing a problem and having an instant to correct at 50 mph, then everything goes out of my control as the front wheel hits a hole and all forward motion from 50 mph stops and all of that energy is transferred into a vertical direction. My spine is jammed, partially crushing one vertebrae while breaking pieces of 5 others as I go flying in the air.  Landed flat on my back; searing pain; no breath; can't move anything and yet trying to force my body to breath; finally as unconsciousness approaches a breath, then another small one, and another, and I am breathing.  The pain was completely paralyzingly, could not speak.  3 People gather around me, a woman asking who she can call, a man calling 911, and another man (an EMT) stabilizing my head.  They were there in seconds from when I hit the ground.  GOD PROVIDED.
I could move my arms and legs, my head still immobilized.  Broken bones in the back, broken ribs, severely bruised internal organs.
1 year recovery to 90%, 1.5 years to full recovery.

But I went on a Dragon ride at 5 months while still wearing a clamshell back brace.     🏍🏍🏍

(Yes, that was a VERY careful, gentle and sensitive ride for me)



This year marks 50 years riding.  OOOH RAAW !!!