Not having your head in the game

There's a cost. Today's cost was, in the big scheme of things, really small. It easily could have been bigger.Here's the scenario:

• I add the thermos of coffee to my backpack and walk out the garage door
• Open the garage door
• The backpack (with the thermos and the iPad) are leaned up against the bike
• I start the bike to let it get a bit of heat in it (a minute -- I know you're not supposed to idle air-cooled bikes until they burst into flames)
• While it's idling I put on my gear -- the AeroStitch suit and helmet.
• I mount up -- then remember I forgot something upstairs
• I run up and grab it and hop back on the bike
• I plug in the intercom system to listen to music
• Ride off
• *Clunk*

:cry:It could have been worse though. Remember that I had the iPad in there too. With some luck that was against the ground and it didn't use the thermos as a fulcrum. (!)It didn't leak at all, but I can tell by the heat that's coming through the sides that the inner and outer shells are touching. Thankfully this can cheaply be replaced. A new one is already on the way and should be here tomorrow.Nothing else was damaged thankfully.That's the cost of not having your head in the game -- of losing focus. You make stupid mistakes.