Grump,
You make good sense about the newbies here being "reminded". I sometimes forget that being a motorcyclist for 40 years has afforded me not only a "second sense" about that seemingly innocuous situation/driver ahead that oft times can turn out to be yet another potentially dangerous "event-in-the-making", but also has given me a certain amount of "healthy" cynicism about the abilities/attentiveness of my fellow motorists.
And benjammin,
I'm sorry to hear that somebody evidently "got cha". But, I'm glad to hear you only have a few weeks to go before you're up and about again.
Cheers,
Dwight