It's a Saturday night, I've decided to go to Churches chicken to get food for me and my brother, rather than going to my favorite pizza place like I usually do on Saturday nights after work. I drove the Miata to work, which means it was the Protege's time for a flogging today.
Everything was normal as I drive my loud machine towards Churches, until I caught up to a Silver '06 Cherokee(the new style, might have been an '05?), non-hemi I belive. This guy is driving kinda fast, no big deal. We come to a stop light where I need to make a left, as does the guy. It's a pretty industrial area with low traffic at this time. The pavement is also pretty slick. Light turns green and this guy peels out and speeds around the turn. I'm like "OK, I'll have fun too", so I gun it in first get some wheel spin and shift to 2nd coming out of the turn and just roast the, uhh...tire...So then it goes to a quick right to merge onto a highway-type road.
This guy is going very fast(for the Jeep) around this corner and accelerates hard away from me. I'm like "man this is fun" so I'm in 2nd around the corner, I floor it to the redline in 2nd, and up to about 70ish in 3rd...the road goes over a bridge that they have the lanes make a chicane type manuver(left then right, then straight, right then left then straight). This guy can't stay in his lane at these speeds so I stay back prolly 10 car legths(to tell you the truth he out accelerated me anyway lol). He stays in the left lane, I go to the right lane and begin to pass at about 75(note that the speedlimit in this area is 55 but in this spot of the road there was no traffic...just traffic way up ahead), just to give this guy the "what the hell?" look.
Well, as I get about a car legth from his rear bumper he starts going into my lane. I lay on the horn and pass at the same time. He gives me this "why you little turd" look, I give him my look. We are now slowed down to 50ish, caught up to traffic. He gets behind me as my lane was open ahead and his was not. Well, he puts the brights on to piss me off. Flashing them and all. I slow down, start downshift and engine braking, down to about 25 in second, he's right behind me. I hit the brakes enough to light the tails and then floor it away.
He catches me(I went up to like 45 as this is a slower section of the road with stop lights and such and traffic ahead of me). Well, he tries to pass but there is a car in the left lane, so I easily block him. We come to a stop light and the guy starts motioning me to roll the window down. I shake my head no and give the thumbs down as well. He continues. I get a good look at him, some bald-ish 20 something complete with a BlueTooth phone in his ear...looked like an IT geek to me. So I figured ah what the hell and roll my window down. He's like "Hey, I really like your car!!" I said "Dude, you're driving a Cherokee..." He's like "I was kidding...you think you're a tough guy?!" I said "no" then the light turned green so I take off at the speed of the guy infront of me, just driving normal, still with the window down.
The traffic clears up and this guy flies past me very fast(like 70 in the 45). So I do 50ish, knowing that this area has a decent cop coverage. I see a cop the other way and slow down, this guy keeps going. He comes up to a red light, first in line. I roll up shortly there after. So now I'm at the line with this goof in his Mopar SUV. He again starts up "You think you're something huh?!" I ignore him. He continues, saying "What do you think you're doing?" stuff like this. The light turns green. I hesitate, then yell "The light's green damnit!" and dump the clutch at like 4K and just do a big burnout with a nice 2nd gear scratch. He catches shortly after, then starts yelling "You can't get infront of me!!" I said "I don't need to, I'm turning soon!". Well he gets ahead of me and starts slowing down. I'm like "ok, he's playing this game". So I just stay behind him and slow down with him.
The right turn lane comes up, where I have to turn. So I go there, he goes there. I know he doesn't have to turn here, so figure he'll just play for a bit then get back over and continue down the road. Nope. He slows down to like 20mph. I quickly turn into the parking lot next to Churches, go to the Churches lot, and I see this guy pass by. He actually turned, thinking I'd just do some parking lot chopping and get back on the road. Nope. I park, hop out, lock the doors and head to the door.
Well, he pulls in and pulls right up next to me. I have my hand on the door handle about to go in out of the craziness. He says to me "You think you're cool, you drive a Protege!" I say "Yeah, pretty cool huh?", just to see what he'd do. He blankly looks at me for 2 seconds, then says "What, are you gay, driving your Protege?"(note that he didn't say "Protegay" as he couldn't come up with that slam in the long time he was behind me, lol). I said "You're in a...JEEP , with a BlueTooth. Go play your Nintendo and find someone else to play with". I open the door and start to go in, hear him say "Get back out here!!!" but I kept going. Game over huh. The lady at the register says "what can I get you?" I say "hang on a minute", and make sure this guy leaves the parking lot and drives away instead of harming my Protege. He does(he was prolly too much of a coward to exit his vehicle). So I go back to attempting to order my food, with my heart racing because of all of the crazy driving and the nut yelling stuff at me.
That's the end. Just thought I'd share. I thought it was pretty funny the length this guy went to play road games, and how he didn't actually think I was going to Churches. Now then, I will say that if he was in an older, cheaper car, or(I hate to be stereotypical, but it happens) of another ethnicity, I wouldn't have done this. It was stupid to play games with this guy, or anyone you don't know. But man, this guy was harmless. The way he spoke was just funny. It was casual but he was trying to be intimidating, and it surely didn't work at all. Made my Saturday night!
Everything was normal as I drive my loud machine towards Churches, until I caught up to a Silver '06 Cherokee(the new style, might have been an '05?), non-hemi I belive. This guy is driving kinda fast, no big deal. We come to a stop light where I need to make a left, as does the guy. It's a pretty industrial area with low traffic at this time. The pavement is also pretty slick. Light turns green and this guy peels out and speeds around the turn. I'm like "OK, I'll have fun too", so I gun it in first get some wheel spin and shift to 2nd coming out of the turn and just roast the, uhh...tire...So then it goes to a quick right to merge onto a highway-type road.
This guy is going very fast(for the Jeep) around this corner and accelerates hard away from me. I'm like "man this is fun" so I'm in 2nd around the corner, I floor it to the redline in 2nd, and up to about 70ish in 3rd...the road goes over a bridge that they have the lanes make a chicane type manuver(left then right, then straight, right then left then straight). This guy can't stay in his lane at these speeds so I stay back prolly 10 car legths(to tell you the truth he out accelerated me anyway lol). He stays in the left lane, I go to the right lane and begin to pass at about 75(note that the speedlimit in this area is 55 but in this spot of the road there was no traffic...just traffic way up ahead), just to give this guy the "what the hell?" look.
Well, as I get about a car legth from his rear bumper he starts going into my lane. I lay on the horn and pass at the same time. He gives me this "why you little turd" look, I give him my look. We are now slowed down to 50ish, caught up to traffic. He gets behind me as my lane was open ahead and his was not. Well, he puts the brights on to piss me off. Flashing them and all. I slow down, start downshift and engine braking, down to about 25 in second, he's right behind me. I hit the brakes enough to light the tails and then floor it away.
He catches me(I went up to like 45 as this is a slower section of the road with stop lights and such and traffic ahead of me). Well, he tries to pass but there is a car in the left lane, so I easily block him. We come to a stop light and the guy starts motioning me to roll the window down. I shake my head no and give the thumbs down as well. He continues. I get a good look at him, some bald-ish 20 something complete with a BlueTooth phone in his ear...looked like an IT geek to me. So I figured ah what the hell and roll my window down. He's like "Hey, I really like your car!!" I said "Dude, you're driving a Cherokee..." He's like "I was kidding...you think you're a tough guy?!" I said "no" then the light turned green so I take off at the speed of the guy infront of me, just driving normal, still with the window down.
The traffic clears up and this guy flies past me very fast(like 70 in the 45). So I do 50ish, knowing that this area has a decent cop coverage. I see a cop the other way and slow down, this guy keeps going. He comes up to a red light, first in line. I roll up shortly there after. So now I'm at the line with this goof in his Mopar SUV. He again starts up "You think you're something huh?!" I ignore him. He continues, saying "What do you think you're doing?" stuff like this. The light turns green. I hesitate, then yell "The light's green damnit!" and dump the clutch at like 4K and just do a big burnout with a nice 2nd gear scratch. He catches shortly after, then starts yelling "You can't get infront of me!!" I said "I don't need to, I'm turning soon!". Well he gets ahead of me and starts slowing down. I'm like "ok, he's playing this game". So I just stay behind him and slow down with him.
The right turn lane comes up, where I have to turn. So I go there, he goes there. I know he doesn't have to turn here, so figure he'll just play for a bit then get back over and continue down the road. Nope. He slows down to like 20mph. I quickly turn into the parking lot next to Churches, go to the Churches lot, and I see this guy pass by. He actually turned, thinking I'd just do some parking lot chopping and get back on the road. Nope. I park, hop out, lock the doors and head to the door.
Well, he pulls in and pulls right up next to me. I have my hand on the door handle about to go in out of the craziness. He says to me "You think you're cool, you drive a Protege!" I say "Yeah, pretty cool huh?", just to see what he'd do. He blankly looks at me for 2 seconds, then says "What, are you gay, driving your Protege?"(note that he didn't say "Protegay" as he couldn't come up with that slam in the long time he was behind me, lol). I said "You're in a...JEEP , with a BlueTooth. Go play your Nintendo and find someone else to play with". I open the door and start to go in, hear him say "Get back out here!!!" but I kept going. Game over huh. The lady at the register says "what can I get you?" I say "hang on a minute", and make sure this guy leaves the parking lot and drives away instead of harming my Protege. He does(he was prolly too much of a coward to exit his vehicle). So I go back to attempting to order my food, with my heart racing because of all of the crazy driving and the nut yelling stuff at me.
That's the end. Just thought I'd share. I thought it was pretty funny the length this guy went to play road games, and how he didn't actually think I was going to Churches. Now then, I will say that if he was in an older, cheaper car, or(I hate to be stereotypical, but it happens) of another ethnicity, I wouldn't have done this. It was stupid to play games with this guy, or anyone you don't know. But man, this guy was harmless. The way he spoke was just funny. It was casual but he was trying to be intimidating, and it surely didn't work at all. Made my Saturday night!
) all the time. He used to mouth off to me all the time because he knew I couldn't do much about it. But I told him one day I would see him outside of work and that it would be his ass. Well sure enough one day I found him on the road in a 45mph zone. He was going maybe 40 in the left lane so I passed him in the right lane going about 60, he puts his finger out the window and flips me off. I slammed the breaks and leveled back out with him, and told him to pull over. He asked me what I wanted, and I told him we weren't out the country club anymore so I am not going to take his **** today. I got him to pull into a parking lot and he got out and got in my face trying to be a badass. I cold-clocked him before he even knew what happened and just about knocked his ass out with one shot. Never saw him again at work. 
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