Max Heim wrote:
> On the subject of awful ads, there were several in the latest Road &
Track
> that had me grinding my teeth... one seemed to advocate accelerating
through
> yellow lights. And the TV commercials which show speeding through
downtown
> traffic, changing lanes frantically... it galls me that modern sedans
have
> so much power, when all it does is enable their drivers to drive badly at
> hgher rates of speed, and woe to pedestrians, cyclists, and small
mammals...
I had a near run in with a fellow motorist about an hour ago.
We were returning from Grandma's house. The boys stayed there during our
home improvement project.
Anyway. It's terribly foggy tonght. We'd just started off from a traffic
light, and I was going 60 in a 55 in the fog, in the left lane. Probably
going a bit too fast. We are maybe a 1/2 mile from where we merge onto
the main Interstate. This guy comes up and is tailgating me. So as I'm
going too fast to probably react to something like a deer coming out of
the fog, I slow down. No brakes. He gets closer. I can't see his
headlights in my RVM. But I know they are there since he's turned on his
brights. By this time, the car that's been next to me has pulled a half
car length ahead. The guy jumps over there, and when there is about 3
feet distance between the back bumper of the person and my front bumper,
the guy comes, fast. Fortunately, no one else was tailgating me, because
I hit the brakes hard and dove for the shoulder. Fortunately, there was
a shoulder and not a ditch or railing.
He would have hit me with his drivers door in my front fender. My guess
is he wouldn't have stopped.
Good ridence, hope to see you upside down in a ditch sometime.
Paul.
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