He’s going to die.
I just had one of the scariest driving experiences of my life.
It’s pretty intense.
Driving along, minding my own business when *WHAM* I’ve got a purple Ford Mustang behind me, revving its engine while we’re at the lights. I don’t have any choice, I can’t go any faster, there is a red light infront of me..
*VROOM**VROOOOM*
Ok, ok, hold your horses, light’s gone green…
Starts moving before I do. I couldn’t see the front of his car in my rear view mirror anyway, and I definitely can’t see it now, but I see his car jerk as he very quickly puts his brake on… You can’t jump the light when a) You’re not the front car and b) You’re incredibly close to the car in front.
So I start driving my normal pace. I’m not going to let some dick control *my* speed and make me do something dangerous.
Now I gotta go round some pretty tricky speed slower downers, which they say to go around at 20kmph. I know the road, I normally go through them at about 30-35kmph, maybe a bit faster if I’m feeling good. I wasn’t feeling good.
Dick is right up my arse the entire time. I can’t see the front of his car at all, I can’t even see much of his bonnet – quite a feat in a mustang! It’s starting to annoy me, because its dangerous, and really wasn’t necessary. He just wanted to get somewhere fast, and I was in his way. Despite doing exactly or over the speed limit the entire time, I still was going too slow.
We get to another schucane chicane and now he gets really riled, because now we’re both stuck behind an old granny who is going through it at 10kmph. She turns into the shopping center, and we continue on our way.
But he’s getting pissed, he’s driving even closer to the back of me, and he’s turned his music up. I can hear it over my air-con and music. It’s loud, and it’s angry.
So I do what any normal person would do. I went at exactly the speed limit and not a smidgen over. He wants to get pissed at me not breaking the law, so be it. Nothing I can do about that.
We come up to a set of lights at a T juntion. It’s green, but I drive this road pretty much every time I go home. I know that unless I go at like 100kmph I will not get round the bend before it turns red. And low and behold as we approach it turns orange. And just as I get to the line it turns red – lucky I wasn’t going fast, having slowed down for the corner.
Was the guy behind happy? Was he hell. So he jerks into the next lane across, which is a right hand turn lane only – and goes through a red light, turning left!
Yes, he not only turned left from a right hand turn only lane, but he went through on red. Not a little bit red, but very red. Like, people who had just started coming across the T junction had to slam their brakes on. And he tooted his horn and gave me the finger.
What a prick.
That’s a stylised version of what happened. I’m no good at animating or anything beautiful or technical like that. I enjoy it though, so that’s my half an hour attempt at trying to show what happened. Notice no line markings on the road? That’s because I couldn’t manage it… Oops!
Saska
I like it. Too Bad you didn’t have a Ford Mustang model for the animation.
I did try and find a Mustang model for the animation, but I couldn’t find one for free. So I just went with the generic “car” default model. To be entirely honest, I’m not 100% sure it was a mustang. It was old (60s or maybe 70s) with a big ass bonnet and front end, and said Ford on the front. A little bit of research on google and Ive got a rough guess, but I wouldn’t swear to it!
Saska
OMG Saska! Not sure, feeling threatened, I might have turned off with the older lady (and treated myself to a double whisky at the shopping centre before going on my journeys but thats beside the point). The shopping centre is a better choice than a quiet street. The problem is, these f**ers “own” (haha) the road and there is nothing you can do to make them realise what a**eholes they are. Sorry for my bad language, but I think they and their small dicks and pea brains deserve it. My motto is to get rid of them asap. It is very very scary when it happens, I proudly attest to being easily bullied, I do get out of their way. Perhaps, nowadays, if you have a quick thinking friend with a camera on a ‘device’ then you can film it for nicking them. Or should I say dobbing them. There may be others and you would be helping to bring a case against them to get them off the road. Never know… Good luck, hope you won’t see them again!! Mum xxx
Thanks Mum!
I try not to let them push me about too much, but I definitely wanted the guy to turn off!