Hello @pedrobrito2004,

thanks for your comment!

Well to me this time as a kid really was one big adventure... at least when I was at home in the States for the summers. My parents went to Germany when I was six years old and of course I had to come along hahaha(!), just in time for me to get schooled in into a German school with a hefty/thick American English accent on my German (grew up talking German and English) in a little German village. So what could go wrong with that? Hahaha! Let's say my formal education suffered a little under the not so fortunate conditions in the beginning. ;-)

So, yes those summers in the States were wonderful! I have a lot of family in the States from Dads side and they all were very welcoming and made every stay in the States very special for me!

Regarding that accident... well it's clearly on the "shit happens" side in my life. Quite an experience too especially while I was always saying to friends and fellow bikers something like "that can't happen to me... because I'm not such a weekend warrior", taking the bike out every now and then for a few miles, but use my bike on a daily basis, had a few 100 tsd miles on bikes under my belt and was simply too experienced for stuff like that to happen to me. Then came Brigitte... that's the Lady who drove in front of my bike, and made me learn a lot if new things!

Can you imagine that very much of my day job revolves around risk management and still I have managed to turn a blind eye to such possibilities? Hahaha! Very selective cognition on my part I guess. ;-)

With those online purchases... very true what you write. Imho It seems that the overall higher concentration of scammy stuff on the "interwebs" in contrast to "in real life" is the actual or perceived anonymity on here. With some reading up on adequate operational security scammers can actually be pretty safe from getting caught and prosecuted.

Cheers!
Lucky