[spookypt]

My rant for the day! I finally got my car back on its wheels after a long periodic detention from use due to "over-tinkering" and decided that I'd take my lovely wife for an afternoon ride up to Sovereign Island after all the Brisbanites had gone home for the weekend...

From my place to S.I and back is about an hour leasurily cruising... Anyway I lost count of the wackers that were tailgating me as I pulled over and let em pass.. Probably about 6 all up on the way there. I was doing the speed limit give or take...

On the way home I let 2 people pass and then had a old ute behind me (too close as usual)... Suddenly out of my peripheral RHS a kid rode out on his bike on a zebra crossing and certainly didn't look never mind check to see if I could stop.... He was going! I caught it just and managed to break and pull left a. to miss him and b. to help avoid the bum sniffer behind me ramming me... Well he just... and I mean just avoided my RHS rear.... and pulled up alongside me.... Crap old ute, bad tyres, no brakes, stupid driver.....

All I can say is the car was to be sacrificed had there been an accident... I wouldn't have hit the kid.... our necks would have been OK as we have head restraints on our seats....and cars are replaceable.....sorta...

Geez, it really took the wind out of my sails thinking a leasurely drive could be so annoying and almost a very near accident....

Just proves... in the scheme of things racing on a track is far safer....

Thank god Scotty and I have that race car... How we fix the road toll when accidents like this can happen so easily has me buggered...

Thanks for reading my rant!

SpookyPT