cheering after a missed serve isn ' t okay for anyone to do <| sep |> Driving my motorcycle on an unfamiliar country road . Not particularly fast but admittedly kind of zoned out enjoying the scenery and nice weather . The road turns , fairly sharply , while at the same time going down a short but steep hill . At the bottom of the hill , around the corner and not visible until the last moment was a stop sign and an intersection with a larger main road . Instinctively I slam on the brakes and the bike begins skidding , wobbling and fishtailing under me . Both tires lost traction at one point . I was seriously thinking Oh my god , this is it , I ' m about to wreck . I ' m about to be a motorcycle fatality . The memory is so blurred I have no idea how I managed to keep the thing upright and get it to stop before flying into the intersection where I would certainly have been flattened .