Distracted Driving

Kadizzle hopped on the motorcycle and thought he would buzz down to the workout hall.  Why not reset the odometer on the way.  Starring at the little numbers and trying to figure out how to get it to zero just took too much attention. Suddenly Kadizzle looked up and realized he was about to hit the gate across the road head on at about 18 mph.  Fortunately the was just enough time to swerve and go through the open portion of the gate that was half closed.  Now the half that was closed is locked down in the center.  The motorcycle would have gone under the pipe gate and Kadizzle would have gone over.  A lot of somethings would have been cut up and broken on both Kadizzle and the motorcycle.  The little bout of stupidity was equivalent to texting and driving.  It was a good lesson. Kadizzle has been thrown from a bicycle at 15 mph once when the front tire dropped into a ditch.  It was a massive body slam.  Had this little crash taken place it would have been much worse.  The moral of the story is when you are moving your eyes need to be only on the road.  If you need to do some silly task pull over and stop.  Do this for me, and slap me silly if I do not do it for myself.  Put that phone down.