Almost died tonight, again.

[Blieb]

So I'm drivin' home, and I go down this one lane road (each way) ... usually having to stop in the middle, and wait to make a left-hand turn.

So tonight I'm waiting to make that left, blinker goin', dead stopped in the middle of the road, around 6pm, so it was light out ...

And all of a sudden I look in the rear view mirror to see a green escort with dark ass tint FLYING at like 60mph towards my ASS. I jumped and popped my clutch a bit so I lunged forward just after he slammed on the brakes ....

He missed my car probably by centimeters as he regained control (not sure how) in time to make it off the side of the road to blow past me, I think he was doin' about 40 when he passed, judging by the cloud of dirt that flew by.

Since I drive an S-10, the things that could have happened are scary. I could have flipped tail over head ... due to the lightness of the bed. I could have kissed my tailgate, I could have been spun into oncoming traffic ... or a tree ... or the other guy could have launched over my truck if he hit me right ... any case I'd probably be a vegetable.

My pulse jumped and I couldn't breathe, almost like a panic attack, I think. I almost had to pull over for a minute to regain my composure!!!

Stupid drivers, he was probably sparkin' a doobie or talkin' on a cell phone ...

 

[Mucman]

Ugh, at least what could have happened didn't

nice truck! I got a '94 Sonoma : pictured here

 

[thawolfman]

:Q

 

[Alienwho]

I got a similar incident tonight.

So i'm driving with a couple of my buddies, and i'm at a stoplight and it turns green. We start going and when we get past the intersection a third lane becomes available. Well I go to turn into that third lane and I check my shoulder and it's clear, so I start to move over and all of a sudden the jackass in the car behind me decides to FLY right past me. So i'm in the middle of lane 2 and 3, sandwhiched between this car trying to pass me, and this bigass van to my left. I came within centimeters of getting hit by both of these cars. Finally the guy who tried to pass me swerves off to his right and gases it while i brake and he takes off past me. It was extremely close.

 

[fatalbert]

:Q

 

[milagro]

<< Stupid drivers, he was probably sparkin' a doobie or talkin' on a cell phone ... >>



Probably cell phone...if it was a doobie, you would have driven up on him while he was either stopped in the middle of the road or stopped at a green light.

 

[Ken g6]

You should have seen the four drunk idiots who passed the family car in Fort Collins, CO one Saturday night. We were up there for a wedding, and we'd already been in one accident an hour before, where another family member was driving us back to our car (low speed, nobody hurt, fortunately). So with this accident still fresh, three guys speed right past us at a stop sign, crossing to the oncoming lane and the dirt shoulder on our right, and a fourth did it on the road right by the motel. It may not have been as life-threatening, as the only people on the road then were drunk guys and us, but it was sure scary!

 

[JediHacker]

:Q

 

[yakko]

At least he missed.

 

[joohang]

Some drivers just deserve to be suspended or jailed. :|

Glad that you guys are safe, though.

 

[Lithium381]

Not quite the same, but on the same topic.....i was on the freeway, in the right lane, cause my exit was comming up in 1/4mile and some cars are merging, i let one go by cause i'm a nice guy and karma works out.....then, there's this old lady in a huge lincoln, NEXT to me, as her lane ends trying to push her way past, she ended up slowing down and halfway on the shoulder.....(paved) heh, cause i didn't slow down in the least, and with my car, i wouldn't notice a scratch at all, hers looked newish, that and it'd be her fault, right? heh, they'd find a way to get a lawsuit on me for something though.

 

[ohtwell]

:Q

Glad you are safe.



: ) Amanda

 

[chickendinner]

I tell yah, there is a lot of soccer moms out there that so the same thing.

 

[zeruty]

I hate stupid drivers



Amanda, I am sure i'm not the first to ask this... but do you got pics of yourself killing kittens?!?!?
there ya, my obligatory jack@ss question... been wanting to ask it all night
i'm actually not that bad.... really....

 

[Azraele]

I hate crazy drivers. :| Glad you're ok.

And zeruty, that's not even appropriate to ask as a joke imo. :/

 

[XZeroII]

Kinda the same thing, only the roles are reversed. It was snowing, but not too hard and the speed limit was 55. It was a single lane road and my bro-in-law was driving. There was a car in front of us going like 30mph. It wasn't snowing nearly hard enough to go that slow, but we couldn't pass. There was a stoplight up ahead where it split into 3 lanes. 1 for turning and 2 for going straight. This person decides to go RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE of the 2 lanes that go straight. I said "I think we should stop", but my bro-in-law was like, "no way" and we went between that car and the curb with the stoplight. We had to come within a quarter of an inch of both that car and the curb. We were so lucky.