Was teaching a BRC Saturday and got a text message from my wife that our family was meeting up with another family for dinner @ 7pm at a local eatery. We finished up class a bit early and I decided to take the long way to the restaurant and stretch out the 9 mile ride a bit to help get me to the 600 mile point before my scheduled service on Monday. The loop I chose ended up being more like 56 miles and got me to the restaurant just in time. :great:
I left the college campus and headed to the RT 8 expressway entrance. Less than mile from the school a woman pulled out in front of me from a side road from my right. I hit the horn and was hard on the binders, although not excessive to make the ABS kick in. She stopped across my lane and was looking at me. I swerved left around the front of her Taurus and as I recovered in lane.
:steeringwheel: :-\
Heading south on RT 8 I was between Shelton & Stratford in the far left lane keeping away from the vehicles merging on and following behind a F350 dually with at least a 3-4 second gap. All of a sudden the SUV along side of me began moving into my lane. I began shifting left as the horn button was depressed. Still shifting over left, I was just about to hit the rumble strip on the shoulder when the Asian woman driver finally got a clue about the time I was able to knock on her window. She looked at me as though I had two heads and finally slowed and moved back into her lane. I gave a her a dual WTF gesture and continued on my way.
My ride continued into New Haven on the Merritt Pkwy where I got off and headed north on RT 69. I was pretty much over the past two episodes of the evening and was well on my way home on the last leg of the ride, on a road that I sometime use to commute home. I was letting the C14 stretch her legs a bit when I came around a curve in Bethany and a CT Trooper was there with someone pulled over. C On the binders again and he gave me "he look" where we both knew a Few minutes earlier and that could have been me on the side of the road. As I went around and was sure he was not following I think I did a little seated happy dance. :celebrate:
The remainder of the ride home was uneventful. Over dinner I pondered why I never had some many close calls on any ride with my C10. Was this some strange Karma?
I left the college campus and headed to the RT 8 expressway entrance. Less than mile from the school a woman pulled out in front of me from a side road from my right. I hit the horn and was hard on the binders, although not excessive to make the ABS kick in. She stopped across my lane and was looking at me. I swerved left around the front of her Taurus and as I recovered in lane.
:steeringwheel: :-\
Heading south on RT 8 I was between Shelton & Stratford in the far left lane keeping away from the vehicles merging on and following behind a F350 dually with at least a 3-4 second gap. All of a sudden the SUV along side of me began moving into my lane. I began shifting left as the horn button was depressed. Still shifting over left, I was just about to hit the rumble strip on the shoulder when the Asian woman driver finally got a clue about the time I was able to knock on her window. She looked at me as though I had two heads and finally slowed and moved back into her lane. I gave a her a dual WTF gesture and continued on my way.
My ride continued into New Haven on the Merritt Pkwy where I got off and headed north on RT 69. I was pretty much over the past two episodes of the evening and was well on my way home on the last leg of the ride, on a road that I sometime use to commute home. I was letting the C14 stretch her legs a bit when I came around a curve in Bethany and a CT Trooper was there with someone pulled over. C On the binders again and he gave me "he look" where we both knew a Few minutes earlier and that could have been me on the side of the road. As I went around and was sure he was not following I think I did a little seated happy dance. :celebrate:
The remainder of the ride home was uneventful. Over dinner I pondered why I never had some many close calls on any ride with my C10. Was this some strange Karma?