Pixie & The Mazda,
Discussion
Yesterday, I had to go to collect some pottery I have had Restored at Pickering, went A19,A64.
Great weather all way there,not too much traffic, collected pottery, took the roof off for drive home, drove about 6 miles, put roof back on!! lovely day out Radio playing etc etc.
A64.... Driving along at about 80ish, when out of the slip road ,came a big red Mazda sports car,side vents, quite a chunky monkey, not sure on model, anyway, he spotted me!!.
He came right up to my bumper, so thought, ah bless he seeing what car Im driving, so IM smiling and still feeling happy with life.
Then I realised that he was in fact "Christine" So I put mt foot down, by this time the road was getting busy, so all the lanes were full, so I had to stay in the fast lane.
My exit was only about 2miles off, so feeling a bit sort of "sick" maybe I was panicking, dont know, but Im not used to going too fast, so I just put my foot down, thinking god knows what!.
He tried to keep up, but did'nt seem to be able to, thats when I looked at my speedo, and it said~~~~~130! now Im s
tting myself, I had to get from fast lane to exit lane, in about 30 secondsish, Mazda man getting back on my tail, as I slowed down, So Im indicating, Hyperventilating,Procastonating (spelling), got into middle lane, Mazda man went passed, smiling, and stuck his thumb up!.
So all in all he was prob a nice fella, but he scared the st out of me, I could have moved over earlier, but the road was busy, and I just got sucked in I suppose.
So how the hell do I stop picking up the bloody gauntlet!
Great weather all way there,not too much traffic, collected pottery, took the roof off for drive home, drove about 6 miles, put roof back on!! lovely day out Radio playing etc etc.
A64.... Driving along at about 80ish, when out of the slip road ,came a big red Mazda sports car,side vents, quite a chunky monkey, not sure on model, anyway, he spotted me!!.
He came right up to my bumper, so thought, ah bless he seeing what car Im driving, so IM smiling and still feeling happy with life.
Then I realised that he was in fact "Christine" So I put mt foot down, by this time the road was getting busy, so all the lanes were full, so I had to stay in the fast lane.
My exit was only about 2miles off, so feeling a bit sort of "sick" maybe I was panicking, dont know, but Im not used to going too fast, so I just put my foot down, thinking god knows what!.
He tried to keep up, but did'nt seem to be able to, thats when I looked at my speedo, and it said~~~~~130! now Im s
tting myself, I had to get from fast lane to exit lane, in about 30 secondsish, Mazda man getting back on my tail, as I slowed down, So Im indicating, Hyperventilating,Procastonating (spelling), got into middle lane, Mazda man went passed, smiling, and stuck his thumb up!. So all in all he was prob a nice fella, but he scared the s
t out of me, I could have moved over earlier, but the road was busy, and I just got sucked in I suppose.So how the hell do I stop picking up the bloody gauntlet!
scout said:
So how the hell do I stop picking up the bloody gauntlet!
Hard isnt it, especially when you first get a silly quick car! 
Personally I just think to myself "whats the point?"
I could drive around all day long proving I've got a faster car (or a more fragile ego) than other drivers, but I'd rapidy find myself in a sticky situation or with lots of points.
Not to mention there has been at least one documented case where two chaps were having a "race" on the road, one crashes and kills someone, both go to jail for causing death by dangerous driving. That scares the poop out of me because you never know how much of a bell end the other driver is...
Just drive enthusiatically for YOURSELF when its safe and appropriate to do so. dont let others goad you into it.
Add to that, any moron can drive a car quickly on the motorway (NOT calling you a moron), doent even need to be anything special so all they prove is thier bank balance is big enough to pay for the car + fuel and they arent worries about a 100mph speeding ban! On the twisties is where "its at"
ETA more importantly the twisties is where the police arent at!
Edited by davido140 on Saturday 3rd May 09:12
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