The other day I was riding my bike through the neighborhood and decided to head over to the next neighborhood, an equestrian community. I pedaled up onto the sidewalk that runs by the house on the corner and realized the bushes blocked my view of the sidewalk that I would turn onto. I wouldn’t be able to see if anyone was headed my way.
In normal times, this wouldn’t even be an issue because bicyclists were rare. But since the pandemic began, nothing has been normal and people are finding ways to exercise safely. My first thought was that maybe I should return to the street to make that turn because I would have a straight-on view of the sidewalk. And in the event someone was racing toward me, I would see the person first. You can see the curve on the left side of the road. The bushes are taller and thicker now.
Suppose, I thought, I make the shortcut turn and someone on a bike barrels into me? My second thought was whether this might be an instance of precognition?
By then, I was at the turn just seconds before a guy on a racing bike would slam into me. He yelped, “Yikes!” And veered away from me.
A precognition a bit too close for comfort.
