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Sideways action....angry man...angry me....

To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Sideways action....angry man...angry me....
From: "Matt Birkett" <datsunsp311@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:41:21 +1000
Hello List,
             here is a little story that happened to me the other day....

             It was a pleasant spring afternoon and the sun was shinning 
with a slight cool breeze in the air so I thought it would be the perfect 
afternoon for a let-off-some-steam drive.  So I was driving around for a 
while not really doing anything too illegal (like maybe 70 in a 60 zone max) 
and I had been driving around for about a half hour and decided it was time 
to come home.

            I came around the LAST corner before my street and there was a 
bit of loose gravel on the road...now this is a nice, flat, good visibility 
corner with no houses on it and no other cars on it at the time so I thought 
I'd have a bit of fun and came around the corner at a decent speed and as 
you would expect the arse end let go and I slid very sideways and corrected 
the slide perfectly (as I always do) then continued up the road.......then 
about 50m up the road I saw a man come running down his driveway with his 
hands in the air jumping about like a mad man signaling to me to stop....I 
thought he wanted to congratulate me on my excellent sideways control, but I 
was wrong....he seemed very upset that I had come around the corner as I did 
and proceeded to yell his lungs out at me.

            I was about to drive off and show him what I thought of him but 
decided to tell him that I was just out to have a bit of fun and didn't want 
to upset anyone and that I wouldn't get sideways on that corner anymore, 
just for him.  He seemed happy enough with that, then he became not angry 
but seemed interested in my little Datsun and started telling me how it was 
a very nice car.  At this stage I was sick of listening to him and 
left.......   Has anyone else ever had a similar thing happen?  It just made 
me angry...I wanted to ask if he gets angry at every person that comes 
around that corner faster then he thinks they should?

Oh well, just wanted to share that with other people who might appreciate 
how annoying people who want to tell you how you should drive are.

Matthew
Queensland
Australia
(Red '66 SP311 Weekend driver)

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