What's your definition of "spirited driving"? Options

[_mikeE]

So, my best friend and I were talking and we came upon the topic of "spirited driving" and gave each other our definitions upon it and came up with the idea that we should both make a new thread on each other's car-forum site.
So my definition of driving spiritedly would be something similar to driving on roads that aren't so busy/secluded and driving hard and doing so to perfect one's driving ability and for the joy of doing it.
My friend's definition was simply driving whichever way you like, as long as you have the joy behind it.
Some others' input would include, "spirited driving is straight up cruising on the highway. The ones i am talking about are those that go through the mountains, the ones that noone ever goes through. Bring a cop radar and smash out on those roads for fun with the music full blast"
"Mine I guess would be when I get off work at 5:30 or so AM especially on sat or sunday morning. Theres no traffic, the exhaust is humming, its chilly, but not cold, the highways are all mine. No cops, no traffic, just me, my car and the sunrise, sunroof cracked open."

So I was just curious as to what your views of Spirited Driving might be.

[richee3]

^ x2.

Unfortunately, Manphibian is right. Too many people learn where "too far" is right before they get hurt or seriously hurt someone else. I used to have a truck, a '99 Dodge Ram single cab/short bed. It was light for a truck, and had the 5.9 liter. I went hill-hopping in it ONLY ONCE on a road that I know all too well since I live on it. What I didn't know about this road is that it curves ever so slightly at the top of the hill and you never notice it in normal driving. When you are in the air at 70 mph and all you see is a barbed wire fence right in front of you, you learn to not do that ever again. That experience turned out alright, but two weeks after that a kid just a year younger than me got killed doing the exact same thing. I've done stupid things and I learned my lessons. There are no tracks close to where I live, so I try to keep it sensible for the conditions, taking each corner as if there was a child in the road on the other end.

EDIT: Sorry for my semi-hateful posts. I'm working on no sleep here. Kinda grouchy.

This post has been edited by richee3: Nov 30, 2008 - 11:48 AM