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

[No0bOne]

One day after my friends and I have gone uphill driving for a few times until i did not want to take my baby up there anymore, I shared rides with a fellow friend of mine. We had walky-talkies in hand and all...As we climbed up and up and to a turn where the front view bout 80% blocked. His car started to slid to the left lane and it looked like we are gonna fall down if this continues. All of our friends ahead of us made it pass the 4Runner, some almost hit it, unfortuneately the collision was head on. My friend was at fault. Even though we both had seat belts on. When we were hit I literally flew! My shinbone hit the glove box somehow? So therefore i got injured. I wasn't able to walk for a while. But now it's all good even though the mark is still visibly there...