A return to meaningful things...

[whttrshpunk]

OK so I was driving home from my girlfriends house tonight, a little sleepy and a bit stressed out over miscellaneous things going on in the realm of work/school/personal/anything else I left out/etc. I round the last gentle corner of the highway before the 3 straight miles to the street I live on, and that's when I saw it. It's been there for a while, but I've never payed very much attention to it. This night in particular however, I decide to have a closer look.

Since I had already passed it, I had to make a quick U-turn, got in the turning lane, looked around to make sure no one saw me, and then turned in. I drove around the whole thing once just to see what it was like and think a little about what I was about to do, after all it had been so long since I had done anything like this.

Then it hit me. That feeling. The feeling of forgetting everything else and just doing something solely for the experience. So I did just that, I experienced it. As I neared the first street I had meandered down, I switched my boost controller on high. I shifted down into 2nd and stepped on the gas.

For the next ten minutes, I forgot about all that other stuff. Maybe to some, blasting around the empty streets of a yet to be developed sub-division at seventy miles an hour is just silly, or maybe irresponisble. But for those ten minutes, I didn't care about being responsible, I just cared about having fun.

I said all that to say this: Sometimes it's good just to relax and enjoy the ride, because life is too short to be stressed all the time. Figure out what's meaningful to you, and go do it.

[TerminalVelocity]

I think I need to boost tonight.....

and man do I hear ya...

[mike1224]

Originally Posted by whttrshpunk

For the next ten minutes, I forgot about all that other stuff. Maybe to some, blasting around the empty streets of a yet to be developed sub-division at seventy miles an hour is just silly, or maybe irresponisble. But for those ten minutes, I didn't care about being responsible, I just cared about having fun.

I said all that to say this: Sometimes it's good just to relax and enjoy the ride, because life is too short to be stressed all the time. Figure out what's meaningful to you, and go do it.

I've been looking for a street like that. sometimes it's just nice to have fun. it sounds like you needed to do that just to relieve some stress. hope you're feeling better.

[fredjacksonsan]

Well done!

[NOBU-SAN]

I can't crank up the boost, but I sure do catch what you're throwin. What a way to forget about the bad stuff. Even out on some of the really straight roads down here, I like to just hit it once in a while. 5-3 downshift, nice quick pass in the left lane. Take the next exit just a littl quicker than the sign tells me I ought to. Double check for cops, get up on Mcmullen Booth Road for a minute, Gun the snot out of the car from each and every light. Racing on, running from no one but my own stress, and man is he slow. Meanest cat around, but he just can't drive like me. I know he knows where I live, and where I work, and he'll definitely catch up when I do eventually stop, but not now. And when he does catch up, the race is on again. And I know I'll be able to win, again.

[fredjacksonsan]

Originally Posted by NOBU-SAN

I can't crank up the boost, but I sure do catch what you're throwin. What a way to forget about the bad stuff. Even out on some of the really straight roads down here, I like to just hit it once in a while. 5-3 downshift, nice quick pass in the left lane. Take the next exit just a littl quicker than the sign tells me I ought to. Double check for cops, get up on Mcmullen Booth Road for a minute, Gun the snot out of the car from each and every light. Racing on, running from no one but my own stress, and man is he slow. Meanest cat around, but he just can't drive like me. I know he knows where I live, and where I work, and he'll definitely catch up when I do eventually stop, but not now. And when he does catch up, the race is on again. And I know I'll be able to win, again.

That's like poetry! Thanks for the images....

[Damien]

No exactly how you feel man. I got music especially created for it too. There are a set of roads I can take to come hoome from work or anywhere and those are my designated crusin, screw it all roads. It's good to sit back and enjoy the ride.

[tonioseven]

Damn, this is the kind of thread that made me stick around here at AF! Thanks for the cool visions!

[clawhammer]

I can't wait for them to pave the roads on the Subdivision next to ours. I will have lots of fun driving through there in the S2000.

[2.2 Straight six]

i got the wheels spinning in the driveway when practicing in the golf. it was accidental, i kicked the accelerator instead of gently applying it. mmm....

[TerminalVelocity]

Pearl Jam-Do the Evolution

Got two Alpine Type S 6x9's right next to my head *anyone seen the inside of the Z...it IS a cockpit*, and its interupted by the bass of the motor, and the hiss of the blowoff.

Nothin like it, come out from work, 3am...skip the stopsign and downshift, ass gets out one way and the front slightly another, smoke pouring out as the buildings echo your madness. Nothin like it. Then hop onto the freeway, slight curve, commin in hard and half way through laying into her, griping around the apex and getting pulled in by the harness like a good lover as you feel the G's.

Then your home...your quick affair over...but youll never forget it...never forget any of those times. Fuck the quarter at a time...I live my life for the drive.

[deadbolt_35]

Originally Posted by tonioseven

Damn, this is the kind of thread that made me stick around here at AF! Thanks for the cool visions!

so often it seems like all we do on this site is argue and debate. it's threads like this that remind me why we're all on here. it's because we all love to drive. it's theraupy, it's freedom, it's escaping our everyday lives and finding a few moments of thrill and adrenaline.

when i need an escape i just hit the highway. i live in a small (pop. 5000), isolated (nearest walmart, 240 miles) town, hid up away in the mountains. any way you go, you'll hit beautiful, curvy mountain passes totally devoid of any traffic. there's nothing more exciting or relaxing then pushing each turn just a little harder then the last, racing nobody but myself to the summit and then down the other side.

[tonioseven]

Sh!t; I need to get my transmission fixed! I miss driving on the freeway in the Bonnie! I guess I'll just go build a model instead

[2.2 Straight six]

Originally Posted by deadbolt_35

when i need an escape i just hit the highway. i live in a small (pop. 5000), isolated (nearest walmart, 240 miles) town, hid up away in the mountains. any way you go, you'll hit beautiful, curvy mountain passes totally devoid of any traffic. there's nothing more exciting or relaxing then pushing each turn just a little harder then the last, racing nobody but myself to the summit and then down the other side.

yes, mountain roads provide great driving, right up until you drive right off the edge...

[TerminalVelocity]

Originally Posted by deadbolt_35

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving's not for you.

Originally Posted by TerminalVelocity

If at first you don't succeed, Downhill racing is not for you.