Yosho
03-22-2002, 11:24 PM
So I'm out with my wife tonight going on a leasurly drive in our Si through the country. We came to a spot where our road merged with another country road... I merged. There was another car coming down the road. No problem. It was going faster than normal... no problem. Now, I don't like holding people up when I'm driving out in the country... people tend to drive fairly fast on this road and a lot of people come back here to play and drive real fast. So I speed up a little... I figured he'd slow way down for the next corner. He didn't. Hmmm... this guy is still close. One of his headlights is off... so it's REALLY annoying. I speed up a little more thinking I'll just put some room inbetween us and then even if we're both speeding... it won't bother me. (Note, we're the only 2 cars out on this road for the last few minutes... all this room and he has to follow me close.) He keeps pace. Hmmmm... ok, maybe he's in a hurry and wants to pass. After the next turn I slow down to only slightly above the speed limit. He keeps pace. He doesn't pass. Hmmm... Ok, I'll lose him in the next turn. I take the turn fairly fast for most cars figuring I'd lose him easily. I did gain ground, but he quickly made it up. So now I figure this guy wants to play... or he's trying to annoy the hell out of me with his bad headlight. So the next turn is a real sharp 90 degree turn. I take it as fast as I dare after being blinded a bit by his lights... which is to say still very fast, and then I gun it up to about 90-100 down the next straight. He's trying, but he's not keeping up this time. We're almost back to normal roads again. The next turn is a long sweeping turn that I take near the safe limits of the car... then I do about 60 down the next straight and start slowing my run down through the next turn. This car has been trying to keep up with me but can't... and I put enough room in between us that I could still see his headlights, but they were no longer RIGHT BEHIND ME. =) So after I leave the last turn I'm approaching the intersection - red light... I'm slowing to a crawl... it turns green I'm following a car through it. I look in my rear view to see the car that was following me is now getting in the lane to make a left hand turn... I watch it go through the intersection... no shit. That's a Hillsborough Country Sheriff's Crown Vic. Nice... just played tag with a cop. Glad he didn't pull me over. He had to know that was me going through the light. I wonder why he played tag? I wonder why he didn't pull me over when he lost? Oh well, I would of told him the truth... his headlight is misadjusted and was bothering the crap out of me. Hmmmm