[PANAVIA]

So get this -- I am cruising on 280 to 85 towards mountain view, zipping up on the onramp a long right hand sweeper, not too fast -- and I come up on the back of a purple-blue late model nissan frontier pickup....

--- and he starts tapping his brakes repeatedly and swerving in front of me in some possessed ralph nader out-of-body-experience to be keeper of the speed ritual, trying to block me and slow me down. -- keep in mind I am not really on it.

So as I close the distance , I pick a nice parabolic sweeper speed course to nicely pass him on his left with a lane between us and light the afterburner rings a bit.

---as I pass him , he full-on flips me off with ---dual flippers (both birds no less.

I thought his especially odd that a member of the purple-truck-safety-patrol would be so un-safe as to flip me off with both digits, whilst he leaves to leave the steering wheel unattended.

So I politely waved as I went by , - and lit another afterburner ring ....

--and left Dr. Nader to search out errant corvairs.



Steve