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Old 05-02-2019, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by CrBear
+1 on that ! Was a young girl on her phone.. or an Asian woman playing chicken ?
If that question was for me, I wasn't able to see into the car because there was a glare on her windshield. And they must've seen me swerving around them as they turned into the intersection, because after I got back into my lane, and slowed down, I took a quick glance back in their direction, and they had stopped after they completed their turn. Probably trying to see if they just killed a guy on a motorcycle. I just went on about my business. Didn't trust myself to behave if I would have stopped and went to talk to them. Just went to a parking lot about half a mile down the road and regained my composure/cleaned the **** out of my shorts, etc.
 
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I am still with the : never trust a fart kind of guy.
 
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Originally Posted by chopperdog45
If that question was for me, I wasn't able to see into the car because there was a glare on her windshield. And they must've seen me swerving around them as they turned into the intersection, because after I got back into my lane, and slowed down, I took a quick glance back in their direction, and they had stopped after they completed their turn. Probably trying to see if they just killed a guy on a motorcycle. I just went on about my business. Didn't trust myself to behave if I would have stopped and went to talk to them. Just went to a parking lot about half a mile down the road and regained my composure/cleaned the **** out of my shorts, etc.
Glad your skills got you out of it !
And yes, I don't trust myself to behave in those situations either... ha
 
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Glad your skills got you out of it !
And yes, I don't trust myself to behave in those situations either... ha
I can't say it was 100% skill - there was a lot of luck involved too!
 
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Lesson Learned - Being in the right does no good if it gets you killed.

Almost taken out by some idiot going straight from the inside "left turn only lane". The pause in the video shows the second of two signs showing the inside lane is left turn only. Of course, I saw him change lanes behind me as we were approaching the intersection, so I was expecting the worst. Before TxDot had repaving done to this road, there used to be painted arrows on the pavement along with broken painted lines and, I believe, there were signs on the horizontal pole adjacent to the stop lights.

 
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Originally Posted by Don Michigan
When I was a young man, a girl called me and said she's late.
After a few terrifying days, the red devil showed up.
That was a close call.
I was too young for that.
Before you blast her, cover your bush master.
 
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Was merging on to a hwy from on ramp it was dark,vehicle coming beside me as he passes I start to merge and holy crap he is pulling a trailer with no lights,came real close to taking a ride on that trailer.
 
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