my great debate...to wear a helmet or not??

after 3 weeks of riding my bike on the bayou, not once have i put on that colossal helmet! i mean realllly....when was the last time u fell off of a bike, right? with my cap on, i rode for miles watching other cyclists pass me by....racers, kids, adults & couples, all of 'em with those dreadfully unfashionable helmets. but after awhile, i was beginning to feel a little out of the loop. did i not get the helmet memo? am i biking illegally? and then i kept thinking...."okay, you do know you're riding on a 4 foot wide strip borrowing a 20 foot drop into the smelly muck, right?" hmmmmmm..... it still wasn't enuf to change my mind, so being true to myself, i hung in there...cute red cap and all! to amuse myself, i started raising my head to only acknowledge the few proud cyclists who still wore caps! and then just as i became overly confident - a team of 9 cyclists 'snuck' up from behind me, shouting 'on your right on your right'' and as my confidence went south with this sea of olympians chasing me, i literally held my breath praying there was no wipeout! breathe girl breathe......and in a flash they were gone!!!! but for one brief moment, i thought WHY DIDN'T I WEAR THAT DAMN HELMET? needless to say, that thought went away in a flash too! the cyclists got by safely...and as for me, i'm still not crossin' over to helmet world, but i do think i just might invest in a rearview mirror! : )