Quote Originally Posted by euphonius View Post
Stand near a place in Shanghai (or anywhere in China) that sells cigarets, and watch the next guy who buys a pack. He'll tear open the pack, and the plastic wrapping and foil liner will tumble from his fingers to the sidewalk as if there are only laws of nature involved. No thought involved.

It is with precisely this same natural ease that the driver of a truck or bus or car or bike or scooter or bicycle, or pedestrian for that matter, will suddenly turn directly into your path. The thought that there might be a YBR250 hurtling in their general direction with someone's father and husband as pilot simply does not occur to them. The thought does not occur, yet the act of turning into your path does -- with harrowing regularity. Plan for it, always.

TIC. Getting angry won't change it.

cheers!
i always throw my rubbish in those handy little rubbish baskets fitted to the front of all the bicycles