Little pissed right now - need consolation?
#26
Originally Posted by BunnyGirl
Thursday on the way home from work I was waiting at a light to get on I-84 and some kids in a beat up truck with bungee cords holding on the front bumper pulled up behind me barely inches from me, and we are on an incline. Not a particularly steep one but enough of one. Anways, for some reason there are ton of cars around this particular night which is very unusual at around midnight. Several cars were in the lane next to me. I was the first one at the light. It turns green and I gave it a little more gas than I probably need to because I didn't want to roll into some POS truck. Anyways, suprisingly, I took off completely smoothly although very quickly. The next to me was some riced out Civic so he then accelerates and goes flying past me on the ramp. I think he thought I wanted to race or something. It was funny. I took off a little fast but let off the gas a bit right after I took off so I wasn't speeding down the ramp and was at the normal speed at this time. Anyway, the guy goes flying past me onto the freeway and starts flashing his lights and he and his passengers were sticking their fists up in the air out the windows. It was so retarded. A little further down the road he got next to me to try and race me again (wasn't racing him to start with, just trying not to roll back and succeeded). I just kept ignoring him and he goes speeding past me again and a little further up the road I see he is pulled over by two cop cars.
looks like they have the case of race your self sydrome. common symptoms are , waving the fist out the window even though they are the only one at the speeds of 90+
#29
Originally Posted by BunnyGirl
Thursday on the way home from work I was waiting at a light to get on I-84 and some kids in a beat up truck with bungee cords holding on the front bumper pulled up behind me barely inches from me, and we are on an incline. Not a particularly steep one but enough of one. Anways, for some reason there are ton of cars around this particular night which is very unusual at around midnight. Several cars were in the lane next to me. I was the first one at the light. It turns green and I gave it a little more gas than I probably need to because I didn't want to roll into some POS truck. Anyways, suprisingly, I took off completely smoothly although very quickly. The next to me was some riced out Civic so he then accelerates and goes flying past me on the ramp. I think he thought I wanted to race or something. It was funny. I took off a little fast but let off the gas a bit right after I took off so I wasn't speeding down the ramp and was at the normal speed at this time. Anyway, the guy goes flying past me onto the freeway and starts flashing his lights and he and his passengers were sticking their fists up in the air out the windows. It was so retarded. A little further down the road he got next to me to try and race me again (wasn't racing him to start with, just trying not to roll back and succeeded). I just kept ignoring him and he goes speeding past me again and a little further up the road I see he is pulled over by two cop cars.
#30
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Originally Posted by BunnyGirl
I just kept ignoring him and he goes speeding past me again and a little further up the road I see he is pulled over by two cop cars.
I also had a rental Pontiac G6. It was an auto, but had a shocking amount of low-end torque - anytime I gave it more gas it pressed me back. Nowhere near as nimble and sexy as my RX-8, but it was sufficiently powerful for the competitive rush-hour traffic around Rochester, NY.
Props to the G6 for guts, but no points for handling or curb-appeal.
#31
Originally Posted by hedgecore
Shaking their fists out of the window of a pickup that has a bumper held on by bungees?!?!? Sounds like they hey must have forgotten their pitchforks and torches. Either that, or you're not part of an ethnic minority.
The crappy truck I was trying to avoid (stopped on my bumper practically) was the reason I took off kind of fast. The riced out Civic was the one racing me who started out in the lane next to me.
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