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

[HyperDeathKill]

Yesterday my friends and I were taking a 6 car carivan to Indiana (we're in IL near Chicago), and since I didn't know where I was going, I settled back into the 2nd spot and followed my friend. Well, there's rediculous amounts of tollways in IL. I don't know if you have them other states, but it costs me $2 to drive down to college. And we finally hit one. Well everyone had IPASS which lets you take them at 40 mph, and I had to stop, wait in line and throw some quaters in the automatics.

So, they were so far ahead of me I couldn't see them. But I gunned it, changed lanes infront of the 4/5 spots, and was contested for 2nd, but I got it.

Anyway, it really was as badass as I like to make it sound. One of my cousins who lives in Hawaii is a big tuner, when I visted I saw his ghetto riced out Honda with unpainted, mounted, front body kit, and saw his Fast and the Furious demo video. I didn't know too much about cars, but he told me that one of his friends was killed doing 100 on the freeway. It wasn't wet, it wasn't nothing. Just turned too fast, lost control, flew into the side, died on impact, 16 years old.