Mauro Fiorentini
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Forge your future with the hammer of your mind!
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Amen to that! The first thing that my license instructor told us, was that ANY vehicle is a potential weapon, dangerous for both us and the surrounding people. I once had the worst car accident of my life, when the driver got killed, and the car drifted 5 times before rolling 4 times on its roof. Until then, I've always wondered what would have happened to somebody coming from the other side of the road. If he was on a motorcycle, we'd have knocked him out. If he was on a car, we'd probably injuried him seriously, because we were going VERY fast and the car took about 120 meters to stop. Until that accident, I drive much more carefully. To tell the truth, I drive my motorcycle carefully since I was 18, at least, even if sometime I enjoy riding it as fast as we can - but only in some contexts, for example at night, in places that I know to be deserted at that time. I simply enjoy too much the feeling of speed while I turn, lowering my knees almost to the asphalt! And after a second, the turn's done, and I can slow down. But I never do that when there're other cars in sight. Vehicles are weapons, and since I've experienced the death of a close friend, I don't want to get involved in it anymore! Greetings, Mauro.
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