Genuine e-mail sent by one of my friends today…
Note: The Rally Car that’s mentioned is a real-llife rally car at a sale price of approximately $120k Australian….
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Morning all,
This morning I had to deliver Darrens’ rally car back to the workshop at Gordon. (Darren secured 3rd place at the rally, congrats) Anyway interesting journey this morning. An hour from my place to Gordon. Traffic was fucked.
Sooo, I’m sitting in bumper to bumper traffic, in the middle land at the end of the freeway turning left onto Pacific Highway. Crawling along in first gear. Right land was flowing freely and cars were flying by….
All of a sudden this motorbike in the right land jumps hard on the brake and tries to cut in front of me. There was a semi trailer behind him probably doing 90km/h. The bike comes to an almost stop in the right hand. Semi is all locked up heading towards the bike. I’m watching it all transpire in the mirror. Semi was probably a car length from the bike at this stage, still locked up and wasn’t going to stop. Trailer was locked up right next to me….
FUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!
Then the dude on the bike must have checked his mirror, saw the behemoth truck locked up heading towards him, and took off flat out just before the semi cleaned him up. Very very close call….
After semi went by traffic had to stop due to zero visibility from the tyre smoke from 20 odd locked truck wheels filling the air. I could hardly breath and I had the windows up…
Anyway, my heart settled down eventually and I continued my leisurely journey singing to myself (rally car has no stereo, left iPod at home). 20mins later my phone rings, it was Lewis, conversation went something like this:
N: Hey Lewis
L: Hey Nige, traffic pretty bad today huh?
N: Yeah it’s crap, how’d you know I was in traffic,
L: Did you see that semi locked up heading towards me?
N: Was that you on the bike????
L: Ah yeah, saw the rally car, thought I’d say hello..
N: You crazy Fucker!!
L: Yeah, anyway, catch you for a beer later.
N: Cya
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Gold!
Adam
