I let Joe know that we were woefully unprepared for road rash incidents. This advice did not come out of nowhere, incidentally …

Some idiots apparently don’t know their limits, and attempt to bunny-hop curbs to avoid traffic. At speed. And it behooves us to be prepared for such idiocy in future. So I told Joe that I’d volunteer to bring the goods for the next ride (or at least the next ride I attempt).

I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I’d been carrying the omamori from Ai-chan.