カフェ定休日の今日は書き出しておいた予定事項を朝から順に片付けようと、まずは駅コミュニティーセンターの野菜市へと自転車を出しました。角を曲がろうとした時、出会い頭に軽バンが目の前に現れあわやというところで私は右にハンドルを切り、相手の車も止まり大事には至らず。私の左手は車を押さえていました。向こうもびっくりしたと思います。怖い一瞬でした。事故というのはこのように起こるのだと痛感しました。
お昼前に今度は彦根へ買い出し。朝のことがあるので気をつけながらペダルをこぎました。買い忘れも一つあったけど、とりあえずは数箇所の用事を済ませて走っていると、駐車場から出てきた車が歩道を塞いで道路に出るタイミングを待っています。先を歩いていた人が車の後ろを回って先に行ったので、私も同じように自転車で回ろうとしました。駐車場の出口は夜間扉を閉めるため、かなり深いレールが敷いてあります。自転車の車輪がレールと並行になって跨ぐことができずに、自転車は転倒。私は大丈夫でしたが、前後のカゴのバッグ３つは歩道に放り出される始末。バッグの口を閉めておいたので中のものが飛び出さなかったのは幸いでした。横着して自転車を降りなかったことを後悔。
何事もなく終わりましたが、気をつけなければと肝に銘じた一日でした。
Since it was the regular closing day of the cafe, I wanted to do the things which I scheduled beforehand. Then in the morning I headed to the local market by bicycle. When I was about to turn to the right at the corner on the way, a light van suddenly came in front of me. I turned the wheel to the right in the nick of time and the car stopped there. My bike didn't touch the car although my left hand pushed the body of the car. I didn't get hurt but it was a scary moment and I realized that a traffic accident must have happened.
Before noon, I went to the supermarket and other shops to buy groceries and year-end gifts in Hikone by bicycle again. I paid more attention to riding my bike because of the morning incident. When I was riding back home, I saw a car coming from a parking lot and stopped on the way which was for pedestrians and bicycles in order to catch the timing to go to the car road. A man who was walking ahead of me went around the back of the car to move on, so I decided to do the same thing riding my bike. There were rails between the parking lot and the walkway and they are for the sliding doors in order to close the parking lot at night. I tried to go over the rails but the front wheel of my bike didn't go and I lost my balance. I was all right but my bicycle fell down and my shopping bags were thrown out from the basket which was on the bike. Fortunately the things didn't come out from the bags because I closed the zippers of all my bags. I thought that I should have gotten off and walked with the bicycle instead of riding.
I was lucky because I didn't get hurt through these two incidents but I really thought that I should be more careful when riding my bicycle.
