duhtroll
02-16-2005, 01:03 PM
Ok, go with me on this for a bit:
Every day on my drive home from work on my 26 mile private track I take a very popular truck route. I leave school at varied times during the day. Sometimes I leave at 5, 4:00, 3:30 (right after school to hit a chiro appt. or something), but it seems very often lately I have passed a semi for one particular food distributor just before we both exit. This distributor is not a national nor even regional one, so they can't have more than a dozen semis out there - I go by their lot frequently.
Same truck. Nearly every day. No matter what time I happen to get there.
Anyway, many times I will get by this guy just before the exit (mostly by happenstance) so I don't have to wait for him to go slowly up the long inclined, curving ramp, and stop on an incline, wait to turn left across three lanes, and go again. It's amazing. I see him about 1.5 mile before the exit and get in front (w/o changing speed) just before we both turn off.
Yesterday I saw him again, and proceeded to close with him, and then noticed he had accelerated and was going faster than before. Way faster. At least 80.
He's racing me?
No :censor: way.
So I tapped it a bit and got in front of him, again just before the exit and we both pulled off. At the stop near the top of the hill I looked in the mirror to see what his reaction was, but got nothing.
I keep thinking it must be a lack of sleep on my part. There's no WAY he could have been racing me.
Start the Twilight Zone music.
-A
Every day on my drive home from work on my 26 mile private track I take a very popular truck route. I leave school at varied times during the day. Sometimes I leave at 5, 4:00, 3:30 (right after school to hit a chiro appt. or something), but it seems very often lately I have passed a semi for one particular food distributor just before we both exit. This distributor is not a national nor even regional one, so they can't have more than a dozen semis out there - I go by their lot frequently.
Same truck. Nearly every day. No matter what time I happen to get there.
Anyway, many times I will get by this guy just before the exit (mostly by happenstance) so I don't have to wait for him to go slowly up the long inclined, curving ramp, and stop on an incline, wait to turn left across three lanes, and go again. It's amazing. I see him about 1.5 mile before the exit and get in front (w/o changing speed) just before we both turn off.
Yesterday I saw him again, and proceeded to close with him, and then noticed he had accelerated and was going faster than before. Way faster. At least 80.
He's racing me?
No :censor: way.
So I tapped it a bit and got in front of him, again just before the exit and we both pulled off. At the stop near the top of the hill I looked in the mirror to see what his reaction was, but got nothing.
I keep thinking it must be a lack of sleep on my part. There's no WAY he could have been racing me.
Start the Twilight Zone music.
-A