Two little tidbits from the road yesterday...
I was riding through town, middle lane, in traffic, going about 45mph in a 40... just flowing with traffic... Directly in front of me... a shiny red Ferrari with Texas plates...
Ooooooh...
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Watching traffic up ahead, I see that the approaching light is a little long on green, but I'm probably gonna' just hit it before or just as it turns yellow... and sure enough, right at go/no go point, I'm hearing the Ferrari gun it to get through, and I gun it too... (traffic on both sides of me are moving through as well)...
... and suddenly, in the middle of the 8 lane intersection, the Ferrari goes from near 50mph to slower than walking speed... and I'm darn near doing a stoppie in the center of the intersection, as the light is now going from yellow to red...
I'm then, in control again, in the middle of this intersection, about 6 inches from the puckerhole of this Ferrari on the wrong side of a red light, when I see him gingerly ease over a small pavement hump, (as they are resurfacing the pavement in this cross street)... once he's over the tiny hump, he guns it and roars forward, and I'm right with him because there is now 3 full lanes of traffic approaching to my left side...
... and the SOB slams the brakes down again to go over the other end of the new pavement lip...
And I'm back in stoppie mode again, as oncoming cars are still bearing down on us...
In all,.. it took us a good 30 seconds to get across this stupid intersection...
It would be sin to even scratch this beautiful car, but if I could have gotten hold of that driver,... I'd be missing a boot right now....
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... secondly,.. (I hope this ain't some new fashion trend),... but, I was coming home late last night and the approaching car was one of those fartcan Honda Civic lowriders... and he had green headlights!... very distracting at a traffic light, and pretty frikkin' blinding bright... a lot like those blue headlights, but with a strong green tint...(gotta' be illegal)....
Just two of the reasons I don't carry a gun...
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