Prelude With A Whiter Shade Of Red
Ok everyone, back again. Here's one from a Wednesday Night. Enjoy!
So i was out getting groceries of all things in the Bonneville (what else?) when i hear a horn behind me in the parking lot. This little fifteen year old kid in an 86 sparkling white prelude is behind me flashing his high beams and hitting his horn. i wondered what the hell he wanted, as i didn't feel like speeding away in a parking lot.
So i drove out of the lot and this little dip stays behind me, pulling the same crap, until i stop at the next light and put on my left turn signal. He comes whipping around me into the right lane (i'm in the left obviously) and puts down his window and starts revin his engine up. I killed my stereo and put down my window and this is how the conversation went:
ME "What's the problem?"
KID "You drive a f*n old man's car, and too slow at that! When someone
honks at you, you get out of their way, they're obviously faster
then you and want to get by. "
ME "Mommy's still teaching you how to drive? How sweet. Give her a
kiss for ok? We'll see who's obviously faster."
And with that, i put up my window and reved him back, just once. The light turned green and i floored it, and the kid actually got a decent start. He's lighter then i am so he had a jump, but i had the inside lane so it was even until we straightened out. Then as soon as he put it in third, my second gear kicked in (this is at about 80km/h) and i shot ahead 2 car lengths, signaled infront of him, and took his lane.
He pulled up next to me again at the next light after he moved over to the left lane to try and beat me top end (which he lost miserably). I looked over at him, and he was beat red.
Hence forth my title, whiter shade of red.
Dicks like that punk are what give us other younger guys in fast cars a bad name. They drive something that's stock and think it's hot shit and it's not. And the kid's 15. I'm only 19, i'm still a kid myself compared to most, but i at least hvae respect unlike this little idiot.
It's people like him that give people like me a bad name and make me not want to race anymore. Any thoughts on that?
:bonghitte
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