Parents of girl hit by a cyclist count their blessings

On Friday, December 21, 2018 at 4:48:00 PM UTC, JNugent wrote:
On 21/12/2018 16:35, Simon Jester wrote:
On Friday, December 21, 2018 at 3:49:14 PM UTC, JNugent wrote:
On 21/12/2018 15:22, Simon Jester wrote:
On Friday, December 21, 2018 at 3:19:14 PM UTC, JNugent wrote:
On 21/12/2018 14:22, Simon Jester wrote:
On Friday, December 21, 2018 at 2:20:32 PM UTC, JNugent wrote:
On 21/12/2018 09:01, TMS320 wrote:

On 21/12/2018 01:28, JNugent wrote:

Oddly enough, I have never rounded a corner or bend so fast that I
could not stop if my way happened to be obstructed, whether by a
pedestrian or anything else.

How do you know?

What are you talking about?

Just because it hasn't happened in the past doesn't mean it wont happen in the future.

I'd be prepared to put a bet on it not happening between today and a
given date in the future. Or at least, I would if the arrangements could
be acceptable.

So you agree there is a possibility it could happen.

For some people, reading comprehension seems to be at something of a low
around here.

I said (and it's worth re-reading exactly what I said):

"Oddly enough, I have never rounded a corner or bend so fast that I
could not stop if my way happened to be obstructed, whether by a
pedestrian or anything else".

Was there anything there which purported to read the future?

What one can say is that the attitude described - you can't see through
brick walls so you have to cater for the possibility that there is
something unseen and so far unseeable in your path - is a necessary
policy in order to stay safe and that it bodes well for the future.

Thank you for proving my point.

I really didn't want to point out that you don't understand plain
English (yet again), but you forced my hand.

But look... you could profit, even at your time of life, from learning
the differences between tenses.

You should probably re-read your own posts before you reply.

It's a bit late for you to try to score a point after you failed to
distinguish a statement about the past tense(s) from one about the
future. It was typical, I'm afraid, of your recurring difficulties in
comprehension.

So you are now saying you will never round a bend and crash into something.
Are you not human? Humans make mistakes.
The fact that you were willing to bet implies two possible outcomes.