The Angel on your shoulder (and the Devil on the other)
I always liked the signature line that reads "never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly".
"Sage," I thought, "sage." 
But I reckon the angel sits on your shoulder anyway so it doesn't have to fly and that means it's OK to go as fast as you can...(not that I'd EVER exceed the speed limit you unnerstand...). 
Today I found out that the other shoulder is occupied by a guardian (?) devil...
He works like this...
Riding across to Raglan for morning coffee. Come up behind a big arse tractor on the road, pootling along a little straight bit of road leading into a left hander, slightly uphill...tractor is about half way along straight. I come up behind it and debate whether to pass or whether to drop in behind and wait...
The little devil pipes up "..Pussy! Just get by him, you can do it EASY!!." Not realising the source of such suicidal advice I proceed to do just that...but of course, just as I am on the wrong side of the road, there comes around the corner ahead, an SUV, going like hell and just straddling the centre line as they do. 
For about a millisecond I wondered what I ought to do. But by then it was way too late to drop back, so the only answer was to crank it and dive through the rapidly closing gap...which was achieved with a minimum of drama but a decent dose of adrenalin behind the knees. "Fuck!", I thought, "you's fucking crazy, bro. What the hell you do THAT for?" 
It was then I realised that I had two shoulders, dexter and sinister. Guess who sits on the sinister..?
Howsumever, the dexter shoulder got its revenge coming back. I had followed a car over the hill and was thinking to zoom past it when I got out of the twisties. Comes the straight. I look through and see cars way down the other end, coming t'other way. But another little voice pipes up "Watch it. You can't see what that car coming is - might be the highway patrol. 
Don't want to be screaming past a car if it is..."
So I drop back. And lo and behold, it IS the highway patrol...
One all.
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
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