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I had a really crappy weekend starting Thursday evening , the day was rough and crappy for me , I missed a local VW meet. Thursday afternoon after a long busy tense day working on these big grey ships , decided to go staight home since I missed the VW meet , I was still driving moderately slow for me, none of that 80 - 90 mph stuff, at a light I waited until it turned green, then after I passed the intersection, a car dangerously passed me on the right side , right on the bicycle lane , it was an old GM front wheel drive junker. I blew my horn indignant of what occurred, the response was the two young female occupants gave me the finger so I decided that 55 mph was no longer my speed limit, I caught up to the car at 80 mph which seemed the max speed of the blue smoking junker, I stuck out my finger to communicate my hurt feelings . Eventually we met at a another Highway light where I quietly showed them my finger and stuck it up my nose. They seemed to be laughing all of this time , they stuck their middle finger up their nose and laughed too , I guess I was laughing with them until the driver said that they had to pass me up because my car looked slow and cartoonlike like it was from the looney tunes and that it was also geeky like me, the truth really hurt, they called me geeky........ They were in position to turn at the intersection where it leads to a California State Prison, I asked them if they were meeting someone at the big house , they said yes and I said "it figures " , " Tell your mom I said hello" , that did not go well to them so they both gave me the finger as they turned towards the Prison. I was looking forward to a weekend of working on a project Fasty and marble tiling a bathroom, it did not happen, Friday was a day off (incl Sat and Sun), I was called to urgent work, I had to come up with some electronic parts and deliver them directly to a Gov airport. So off from San Diego to Coronado Island . As I sped up down the freeway I did very good rate of speed and then I heard a snap crackle and pop come from my new Metal sun visor I just got from Australia. One of the four visor mounting screws snapped it's head off and made the visor flop alittle from the air lift so I slowed down to 60, the Coronado bay bridge was ahead , this is a very high bridge with alot of nasty wind blowing, no way to turn back and had to get the part to the Heloport on time. My teeth clenched with every flop and screech the visor made with the wind, I made it over the bridge and was happy to make the delivery and shake some important hands, I did not want to go back on the bridge so I decided to go along the STRAND ,( a highway wide strip of land that leaves the Island city and base ) I thought all was good and clear , I decided to enjoy the ride at 50 MPH, down the middle of the several mile strand it was busy with fast traffic, then a gust of wind blew and tore the sun visor off the car, it was almost surreal to see the nicely painted chromed trimed viso fly off, in what seemed in slow motion, whipping round and round like a boomerang from the land down under, fitting for it's origin. Staring at every movement and molecule of it's being I braked off the road and into the sand . I watched in horror as 5 or 6 luxury cars from the wealthy City of Coronado (Jaguar, BMW, Lexus , a Caddie , Mercedes some I do not remember) , the worst possible grouping to damage with a heavy steel boomerang, I watched in with my eys bugging out as the wipping metal missed every car it threatened with a direct hit, kind of like looking a scene from the matrix. The visor landed spinning and sliding woth little damage. I will not put this back on the car , I think I go too fast for it. It was probably not as scarry or bad as the story of the guy with the engine lids though. Other things happened this weekend but most memorable was when my family was cruising to a Baptism of a nephew, we were in 6 cars (big family of 8 and their spouses and children) I was in the middle and I noticed a giant pot hole ahead of me and I barley avoided it but cause and old beat up mini van to swerve and honk , the driver pulled out what seemed like a gun and pointed it at me but I later learned that it was a pipe, the driver then tried to scare me off the road by swerving quickly into my lane several times, his wife was screaming very scared. My sister honked her horn consantly at a light I explained to the guy that I had to swerve but that I was going to call the police with my cell phone I notified him that he was surounded by my family , he showed me his Piece of pipe that he brandished like a gun and apologized, my sister was behind him still honking and yelling terrible profanities only heard from drunken sailors. This annoyed the driver so much that during the ride down the road , he started to swerve into her car but missing her several times, I think he thought that she was not family . We all honked at this point and at the next light he left his vehicle with pipe in hand and walked toward my sister's Cabriolet, my entire family got out to confront him and threatened jailtime for him , sorounded by what seemed 30 people he smiled and apologized. We followed the same route to the highway as he did and he must of thought we were following him because he was going fast and we did not want to be late to a Baptism, he suddenly exited the highway by jumping over a curve to the exit , it seemed that his suspension was damagewd by this because his tire popped and the wheel angle looked crooked. What a fool! Off my mind now . LEON MARTINEZ SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org