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Old 2006-03-01, 11:33 PM   #1
M3n2c3
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Real Name: Jeremiah
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Default Street racing? Help me figure this out. . .

Ok, I'll preface this by saying that I do not street race. Unfortunately, a lowered Impreza with club decals and NOTURBO on the plates apparently equals a street racing candidate, because I frequently have fools revving at me. I just ignore them and go about my business, but it's annoying nonetheless.

With that out of the way, here's my story:

This evening I finished work at about 10:30 and was heading home when, just before pulling on to 50 from Stewart, I decided I wanted to change the CD in my player. The disc that I wanted to listen to was in a zipped CD case in my glovebox, so I pulled in to the Smith's parking lot in order to change the disc safely.

I was getting ready to leave the lot when I noticed some fool pull right up behind my car. Now, I was not parked facing out - I had parked in the very first space available and was facing in to another parking spot. This put the guy right smack in the middle of the main lane in the parking lot. WTF #1. He sat there for about 30 seconds (I was fiddling with my seatbelt and the volume controls), and then he honked at me. WTF #2. At first I figured maybe I just had crazy luck and had taken the favorite parking space of some obsessive-compulsive nut, but then I noticed that the two passengers in the car were a skinny white guy (passenger) and a not-so-skinny black guy (driver), and they were both eyeballing my license plate and chattering at each other.

Hmmm. Time to go.

I pulled out of the parking lot on to hwy 50, and they followed me, but at a bit of a distance. At the first red light I came to, they pulled up right behind me with a turn signal blinking. When I moved on through as the light changed, they continued to follow me at a distance. Next red light, same thing - they pulled up behind with a blinker but then continued following. WTF #3.

It almost seemed like they would follow me out of town, but at the second to last light I decided to end the shenanigans, and gunned WOT at the green light just to get the hell away from them. As their headlights quickly shrunk in my rearview, I saw them finally turn around and drive back in to Carson.

So here's my question for the few guys around here that I know are in to a bit of street racing: were these clownshoes trying to divert me to a race? If they were, it was totally new to me. Most fuckers just rev on me, but these guys were obviously trying to point me down side roads. And they were being pussies about it, too. They never pulled up next to me or tried to gesture - just trailed me and blinked at the stop lights.

Note that I couldn't tell what kind of car it was, since it was behind me the whole time. I'm pretty sure it wasn't someone from SECCS - I figure if it was, they would have pulled up alongside and waved like a normal person.
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