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The wife and I took the Wing and went for a long ride today up through the forest, to Livingston. We ate at the Blue Duck Kitchen, which I highly recommend if you are looking for a couples lunch/dinner destination. From there, we went up to Onalaska and made a wrong (really right) turn, which put us in Moscow then Corrigan. It was a fantastic day to ride and looking at the weather forecast, it looked like the last good ride day for us for a while.
So, coming back into Trinity, just before the railroad tracks my wife yells, look out for the cat. I saw the cat, but what she didn't immediately see was a 2 year old who had followed the cat onto the highway. He was probably two feet tall, really a little munchkin, kinda waddling across the road. The kid was obviously following the cat. This is Highway 94, a major road coming from Groveton. There were trucks and cars preparing to turn right onto 94 from a side street, another vehicle coming the other direction and me just coming into town. I am pretty sure they all saw what I saw, but just in case, I stopped within 20 feet of the kid blocking the side turning vehicles and began honking my horn (good horn on Goldwings). And so did the other vehicles. A woman, may be the mother, came running out, scooped up the child and ran back with the child in her arms. She didn't make eye contact with any of us. I am certain she was embarrassed and hopefully a little frightened for what she had let happen. The child was so small, it could have been easily missed and this could have turned out much worse than it did. I have always heard to watch out for children playing. Heck, there are signs everywhere. But I have never had this type of thing happen and it was a bit shocking to me.
We finished the ride uneventfully, even drove by Tourmeister's house and visited with our relatives who are building a house nearby. But I could not get that little kid waddling out onto the highway, out of my mind. So writing this down was therapy for me.
So, coming back into Trinity, just before the railroad tracks my wife yells, look out for the cat. I saw the cat, but what she didn't immediately see was a 2 year old who had followed the cat onto the highway. He was probably two feet tall, really a little munchkin, kinda waddling across the road. The kid was obviously following the cat. This is Highway 94, a major road coming from Groveton. There were trucks and cars preparing to turn right onto 94 from a side street, another vehicle coming the other direction and me just coming into town. I am pretty sure they all saw what I saw, but just in case, I stopped within 20 feet of the kid blocking the side turning vehicles and began honking my horn (good horn on Goldwings). And so did the other vehicles. A woman, may be the mother, came running out, scooped up the child and ran back with the child in her arms. She didn't make eye contact with any of us. I am certain she was embarrassed and hopefully a little frightened for what she had let happen. The child was so small, it could have been easily missed and this could have turned out much worse than it did. I have always heard to watch out for children playing. Heck, there are signs everywhere. But I have never had this type of thing happen and it was a bit shocking to me.
We finished the ride uneventfully, even drove by Tourmeister's house and visited with our relatives who are building a house nearby. But I could not get that little kid waddling out onto the highway, out of my mind. So writing this down was therapy for me.
