Stupid cyclists or stupid bike?

I was driving the SLK home last week and overtook a couple of guys on racing bikes - the ones that have the really skinny tyres. They were traveling at about 20mph when I passed them and I traveled on about half a mile pulling out a reasonable gap ahead of them.

Then came up behind an indecisive driver who couldn't make her mind up if she was going to pass a parked car just ahead of her or not. In the end she abruptly decided not to, and stopped quite suddenly. I stopped too and instinctively looked in my rear view mirror to see the two cyclists heading towards me with their faces full of fear! Next thing I know - bang - one of them has gone into the back of me after skidding for what must have been 50 feet or so.

I switched of the engine, took out the key, and got out too see what damage had been done. The guy that had hit me was already yelling out that there was no damage, and he was almost right, just a very small scratch that would polish out.

Although there was no real damage I was still pretty mad that this guy had hit me from such a distance - was it that he just wasn't careful enough or maybe those tyres are so skinny they are just plain dangerous? I can't help thinking it's mostly down to the tyres...

I wish I was more impulsive

A few weeks ago I needed to buy another guitar stand so headed of to my local music store. While I was there I had a look round to see what guitars he (Wally) had in stock and immediately spotted an interesting looking 12 string. It was a used acoustic, but only 2 inches thick, and made by Godin, a maker I'd never heard of. Wally plugged it in and left me to play with it for as long as I wanted and it sounded tremendous. It had a really nice bright jangly 12 string sound and I thought I wanted it but really wasn't 100% sure.

I came home and jumped onto the web to checkout Godin and find out what the guitar was worth. Turns out they're manufactured in Canada and assembled in the USA and are bit of a niche manufacturer, and the price Wally wanted for it was about half of what a new one would cost so it was a bargain.

Then I go through my usual routine of weighing up all the pros and cons for days, and ultimately weeks, on end trying to decide if I really do want it or not. So last week I decided I'd would get it only to find, of course, that it had been sold weeks ago!

Now I'm kicking myself - even if I'd decided I didn't really want it after all I could easily have sold it on for what I'd paid for it - I really do wish I was a bit more impulsive!