Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Maybe should not have done that....

...but it sure was fun!

On way to Anchorage yesterday, came up behind a huge out of state motor home, towing, of all things , a big Humvee. (Alaska, 1948???) going 50-55 in a 65 zone. No problem, passing lanes ahead.

Behind that rig was an old, grey Subaru, with grey-haired, pony-tailed, wire-rimmed-glasses driver. Then a Blue something sedan, then me in my Ram 3500 with overhead camper.

Grey effer, on coming to a passing lane section, would pull up in the left lane just short of the left rear of the road whale and hang there, preventing us faster drivers from passing.

Third time the Subaru SOB did it, I wasn't having it, and accelerated hard (love that Cummins!), despite a double yellow, but it was a sufficient straightaway with no oncoming. Blue had the same idea and crossed the double yellow on the left just in front of me as I came up, so I went right, into the right lane the road whale was in. We simultaneously blew the doors off that Subaru, Blue slightly ahead of me!

Hard behind the roadwhale I cut that miserable POS off with a pickup length to spare, as Blue cut back in front of me, then into lthe right hand lane in front of the motor home. I had speed up, and passed Blue also, and as I went by he gave me a big grin and thumbs up.

Had we planned it, it couldn't have gone any smoother, Blue and me.

Hell, we weren't even mad. Or I wasn't, anyway.

That old Hippie didn't even give us the courtesy of the finger, probably too busy checking his Depends. Ok- he might have been younger than me....

My wife, who always gives me chit about my driving (then does the same herself, or faster), just looked at me and said "Served him right."

But then, she hates Subaru drivers anyway.

I'm bad... I know it...

Nothing like a little road rage!

I said I wasn't mad... and I wasn't. It was cold and deliberate, and it just sorta evolved...and that's a danger.

I didn't say I lacked the vengence gene.

Still... we could have scared the sorry bastard enough for him to swerve into one of us. Not good.

Was ya carryin?
People only do stuff like at, when they be carryin ya know.

Well, duh!

Still wasn't my best moment, ya know?

Besides, I wasn't stopping and no way is a fuggin Hippy Suburu gonna mess with a 3500 crew-cab Ram carrying a 3,000 lb camper. Not til he dogs me for 100 miles... unless the dogs or I have to pee sooner.

I be a bully.... I should be ashamed.

Check back with me on that. Not kosher, but it was fun!

Yeah, gotta love the power of those Cummings. My truck will get with it, if I mash my motor.

Oh yes, las thanks for sharing your story.

My Ram is old *(2003) but it will do at least 110 ( a month or so back, without the camper on it - would not have done it without new Michelins 2 days old on the truck, vs the cord-showing old tires))

Considering this thread- you don't want to know, but 13 in a row is my record to date... We have a law here that says you MUST pull over if you have stacked up 6 behind you...

I really hate people who won't pass the lead car going 10 miles under in perfect conditions and an empty oncoming lane of sufficient length.

I did resist the urge to slow down in front of them to 15 under.....

That was me in Subaru

Oh, sorry. Well , not really, but can I buy you a new Depends?

This

I'm a Subaru driver... a pearl white Outback, 4 cylinder, tan beige leather interior. Just needs a rainbow colored soccer ball magnet to be complete.
That said, I hate Subaru drivers, they HAVE to be the moral imperative "keepers of the speed" on the small highways we have around here. Bastards!

I drive my best to get around every cluster of idiots that clump together and stay away from said "clusters", I believe sheeple like to drive like that, in a herd, but that's where stupid stuff happens.

Okay, off to get my manicure now...

I got a buddy who seems to always be looking for motive or purpose in what other guys drive. Funny thing is that he drives what he drives to project an image. Constantly thinking out loud about what others think of him or what others are thinking as they drive down the road.

It's a funny thing. I've called him on it and he knows it's true. Admits it on his better days.

Me? I see others on the road. Don't (mostly) know them and don't care what they think. About anything...

I commute 60+ miles one way to work. In a Subaru. 45 miles or so on the interstate. Speed limit is 70, and I mostly set the cruise there, get in the right lane, and let everyone pass me. Til I come up to a truck that has a GPS watcher that limits them to 65. Then I pass in the left lane and if things are busy there might be from 3-5 vehicles crowding behind me for the time it takes me to pass.
Don't care what they think either.

I get the rep that Subaru and Prius drivers have. It just doesn't fit the Subaru and Prius drivers where I live.

And there's also this point;

About half way to work there is a guy I work with who passes me on a regular basis. He's usually out of sight in a few minutes on fairly straight level roads.
30 miles later I'm usually a couple of cars behind him in the turn lane for our facility.

Right^^^^^

But do you pass doing 70 or do you stomp it down and get on outta the phooking way?

What did he do, sit down and have breakfast somewhere?

So, you're one of those slow passing fuggers.

See chapter 9. "When you pass, pass! Don't dawdle! Then get the hell back in the right lane."

Whenever I'm driving and my blood pressure spikes, there's almost always a Subaru or some kind of mini-van involved.

I am that...

IQ check should go hand in hand with a DL issue.

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