Had a little reminder about paying attention today.

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Big fail on my part really,beautiful day so decided to take the hound out to the river mouth for a swim etc,went the back way which after some nice twisty bits there's a huge straight,all good and with the only traffic being a car way down the straight on my side of the road i depressed the loud pedal and let the ute stretch its legs still all good then with the car ahead getting bigger (though still a fair way off) the mrs squeals with delight "look at all the little Lambs" i look left remark "yep springs here" or similar then look back ahead and bugger me said car ahead of me was had come to a complete stop,no brake lights indication nothing,i realized there's no way i was going to stop in time so went round the little green Suzuki or similar heart going 20 to the dozen ,looked across at the mrs and her face was ashen white,it was very very close and when i think about it the old ticker still starts working overtime.Whilst it was a stupid place to just stop i fully realize if we had have hit the car it would have been my fault entirely.Would have been a particularly nasty crash and hate to think what the outcome would have been for those in the small car.As a lifelong motorcyclist Ive always made a point of making a point of paying attention.Very lucky and thankful i managed to avoid the crash.Point of the thread?Nothing more than to remind everyone to pay attention i think.