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Old 12-13-2010, 01:36 AM   #237 (permalink)
comptiger5000
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RaceJeep - '98 Jeep Grand Cherokee (ZJ) 5.9 Limited
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I had some idiot in a Subaru wagon tailgating me about 10 feet back at night in a near whiteout blizzard last week. I tapped the brakes a couple times to tell him to "back off", after which he tried to pass me on the wrong side of the road, despite me just having flipped on a left turn signal, as I was coming up to my turn-off. I laid on the horn, causing him to drop back in behind me. Being that he decided to turn after me, I took the turn kinda fast (in a mild drift) to get some space between us.

He caught back up right after though, so I just bailed down the first side street, turned around and continued (now a bit behind him). He went ripping off, and I saw him pulled over farther ahead, just off-campus. Not sure what happened, nor did I care at the time.

People like this piss me off bigtime, especially when they show no signs of backing off, nor do they understand that they're being really, really stupid. If I'd been on something other than straight roads, I could have easily lost him (I had a good bit of grip, and do pretty well with drifting corners to avoid understeer). He came up behind me pretty fast too.
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