. And please, no racing lectures, I'm well aware of the laws and that nobody was on the streets or sidewalks.So I'm coming back from getting groceries this evening, approx. 12:15, and end up sitting at the stop light behind this newish yellow Lancer with a 'OZ Rally Edition' tag on the back. It was just both of us sitting at the light to make the left, both in the right hand turn lane to turn left - make sense? Now I know I have no true hope against this car but I decide what the hell, let him show me up. Light goes green and they start going, not slow but not racing, I follow and turn sharper so that I'm now in the lefthand lane and they are in the right, they seem to realize what's going at this point. We both take off and they ease up a little around 50 where I catch up (wasn't that far behind) and get beside them, glance over, and it's these two pretty girls. Boyah, right?
Well she, the driver, sees me and she takes off again and so do I. We get to the top of the hill and slow down for a light and I hear her hollar a 'yeah lets go' hollar, you know, a cheer type thing, as I'm coming up and starting to pass her because she's slowly rolling up the light. The light just then goes green and we're starting to accelerate again. She's coming up on a car so I flash my brights to signal it's cool for her to shoot over in my lane, she does, we keep going (we're well over the 'reckless' limit but under 65), she gets around the car and moves back over and slows down. We trade places again and I'm infront, I lay it down and take a sweeping turn a little hard, back over in the righthand lane to make the right at the light, she's not far behind. She'd waited for me to get ahead a little and then came flying up. As I'm approaching the light I double tap my brakes for her as a sign of lets keep going, then lay into my brakes, stop, as she stops right behind me. Then I make the right and let her pull out behind and I'm not going too fast as for her to move over to the left lane, which she does and then proceeds to take off, and so do I. The next light is coming up and we do a little criss-cross in lane positions and are coming up to the light where I'm turning off to go home. I kept the hammer down a little longer than her to beat her to the light and as I'm sitting there and she's coming up and I'm thinking to myself, 'Damn, this chic's pretty cool, this has been a fun little outing'. I roll my passenger window down since it looks like we'll be beside each and I just wanted to say 'nice car, that was fun'
What do I hear through the window as she rolls by without stopping (I was behind a van and she was behind a compact car) ... another yell of excitement? No. Instead I hear this winny/bitchy voice, 'what's this guy think he's doing?' WTF? Did I not show proper race etiquette? Should I have not shot past her to get to the light? I am going to assume it was the passenger with the winny voice and that the driver is still a cool lady as I see that car around here and there.
I haven't contributed to the ashtray forum for a little bit ... hope you enjoyed the tale.
P.S. Sorry I can't attend the shootout and get spanked properly by people who know how to do it and have fun.
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