Be Careful out There

[JDBishopArts]

Wanted to tell y'all a little story to maybe make you think before driving too aggressively. Kinda long story but bear with me.

This morning on my way down 35 to downtown I already had 2 people cut me off. Not the usual "cut me off" which usually means pulled in front of me about 2 cars and I just have to slow down. The 2 people who cut me off almost took off my front bumper. So I was a little nervy already. Finally got a break so I got in the fast lane to accelerate. Not sooner than I did that some tard in a lunchbox scion came flying across two lanes and almost took off the front again. My temp was slowly boiling up. Not only did this idiot come flying out in front of me she proceeded to do 50 in the fast lane. The traffic slowly started separating in front of her. I can see this chick on her cell phone. We're in pretty heavy traffic surrounded us or I would have gone around. The middle lane was getting backed up so a dumpster truck (one with an actual dumpster on it) was able to change lanes to get into the fast lane in front of the scion. I had it. I get right up on the Scions rear bumper, hoping she'd start paying attention to her surroundings. She brake checks me. I lose it and start to ride her her bumper. She at least starts to go faster and I'm right there probably a foot from her bumper. I ride it for about 30 seconds before I think to myself, "what the heck am I doing. This is ridiculous" I back off. This is about the spot where the 635 traffic merges with the 35 traffic so there is that large open area in between. Not 5 seconds later I see the dumpster truck swerve and a bunch of cars start slamming on the brakes and swerving all over the place. Don't know if the truck hit the bumper or what happened but all I see is a front bumper go flying about 20 ft in the air. The Scion slams on the brakes but runs over it and it comes flying at me. I keep a pretty close eye on whats around me and I knew the car behind me was an 18 wheeler and there was no way it was going to be able to stop behind me. I swerve into the middle area doing about 50-55 lose control in the gravel stuff and the tail comes out around me. I correct it and it's not too bad so I try to power out of it. AdvanceTrac kills it (I was in sport mode) and kicks me back around so I have to re-correct. Car handles marvelously and I straighten out. It appears in my mirror the semi stops barely short of the scion. Would have turned me into a can. I thank my car, my suspension mods and the voice that told me to back off. I was shaking and I almost pee pee'd a little. lol

Long story short. I know a lot of us like to drive aggressively sometimes (me included). I'm sure most of us can control our cars at those speeds sometimes we can't control what is going on around us. Be safe first.