[darkpuppet]

So today I was helping a buddy of mine move in to his new place up in new market.

Now, I'm driving up Yonge St. to a Home Depot, my car loaded with 3 people including myself, and come to a light.

I leave the light and hear a car with a leaky exhaust accelerate, and as I accelerate I'm pulling ahead of this guy..

Suddenly, there's 3 honks.

honk.
honk.
hoooonk.

And suddenly there's a cacaphony of sound as the throttle is mashed and the leaky exhaust announces it's presence, and the guy pulls ahead.

Now, there are cars a 100 yards ahead at another red light, and this guy passes me on the right, and then slows -- hazards flashing.

So I once again, got smoked by a broken down asshat who thought he was racing...


incredible.

The scene would repeat itself once again with a rusted out grand am with stick-on hood scoop and dual pipe tips as I drove back south by myself --

so I actually wondered.. where these people just being polite by honking 3 times before passing? or were they really trying to race? In traffic?


Of course, coming south along yonge, I got cut off by 3 civics, 2 BMW's... and each time they did it just to swerve around me, get caught up in traffic and then get passed by my slow-moving ass....

And then another car.. an orange Caliber I think, swerved around a car pulling off to the right to park, only to NOT TURN THE WHEEL THE OTHER WAY AND CONTINUE INTO THE ONCOMING LANE!

I think the drive finally realized he was in the wrong lane when he met the eyes of the cab driver he was aiming directly for..

So in 30km, and 1 hour of driving, I was 'raced' 3 times, witnessed 5 near misses, and was cut off (to the point where I'd be wearing their rear seats on my hood if I didn't hit the brakes) 4 times.

I really need a camera mount to capture this stuff on film.
the curse of the racing stripe I'm afraid

Oh.. and I spotted this...





complete with green border... old school!