Was 'raced' tonight!, By a mercury sable, haw Options

[Mage]

I'm driving home from the med school library, and I need to take a left turn on a 4-way intersection (the turn goes onto a 2-lane road)...I'm coming down a hill so I just brake modestly hoping the light will turn green soon (and it does, about 3 seconds before I reach it). I take the turn relatively faster than normal (I hate braking) and get close to a car that had been waiting at the light beforehand, hoping it takes the right lane so I could take the left. It does, and I just keep going.

Meanwhile, the kid driving the car looks over all dramatically and his passenger is making some fuss, and they seemingly try to get past me. It's a 45mph road, but usually everyone drives at 55-60 and I only rarely saw cops on it even though I use it almost daily...so I said "funk dat!" and gun it...I was already at 3rd going around 3100rpm when I finished the turn, so I take it conservatively to 4500 and shift to 4th, thinking that by now they're probably right beside or passing me ...they're only at my tails though. I keep going until I reach around 80 mph, they're still behind my taillights, so I was like "this is retarded, I don't want to get pulled over and charged with reckless driving over bull**** like this" so I brake to around 60 and wait for them to pass me.

I was expecting a ricer fly-by or something, so I wasn't surprised when they went past me. The part (other than 'racing' a mercury sable) was that they changed into my lane and started repeatedly braking in front of me...I didn't think they were trying to block me, but I didn't take any chances and just kept going at 60 until I was right at their bumper and then changed lanes (of course I made sure the lane was clear long beforehand) ...meanwhile they turned left into some residential area.

I don't condone 'street racing' and always make a point of criticizing it, I did this mainly because I was pissed at that guy trying to get past me, curious if my car could actually stand its own (hell, when you have 105 hp stock you don't expect to), and the road is relatively clear and very wide, with 2 lanes both ways and a large middle turning lane. Anyways, I complimented my celica st after it was done.



This post has been edited by Mage: May 3, 2003 - 11:42 PM

[Mage]

QUOTE (97sccelica @ May 4, 2003 - 10:55 AM)

i do that to people that tailgate me but this one time i was driving with a total of 650lbs of people in my car and I SIGNALED and lane changed in front of this girl in a civic.  so then she high beams me and goes to cut me off, of course i try not to let her and i actually get ahead of her by a few car lengths, then this slow van ends up infront of me and she boxes me in and my friend in the back laughed and said i got owned by a girl in a civic.  so at that time i was really pissed, i was in the left lane and i cut left into the opposite direction, passed the van and left that girl way behind, she tried to catch up but but gave up after a few seconds. now let me add that this was going straight up hill where i could see all the way up the road and no one was comming. but boy did it scard the **** outta my friends "ANTHONY, HOLY **** THIS IS THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD!!!" i was proud of my car, lol but then over spring break i raced this one crx and that made me love my car even more.

heh holy **** man, wrong lanes -UP- hill is a no no, because you can't see anything beyond the apex. Glad nobody got hurt, but when people are in my car, I drive ultraconservatively... getting myself hurt/killed is fine, but I don't want my mistakes/foolishness to hurt someone else

This post has been edited by Mage: May 4, 2003 - 8:09 PM