Tommycat
09-03-2007, 10:35 PM
So I'm coming home from work, and I'm just going down the back roads. The highway was horribly backed up. So I pull up to this light and these two guys in a Neon are talking. Dude's a ricer. His friend must know more about cars because I can hear him saying. "Dude your car isn't that fast. Really."
"Oh yeah," the driver says, "watch me take this dude"
"Dude that's a suburban, my grandma's car can take that"
"Yeah but watch how far behind I leave him"
At first I was just giggling inside. If he beats me, it isn't like I really lost anything, I mean really... I'm in my 'Burb. So I figure Meh I'll see what all this kid really has. He looks at me, and I look at him I rev it up to 2k and get ready for the light. Its taking too long, so I let it drop back down, and grab a cig and light it. Well while lighting, the light changes(don't smoke, its bad for you and you might miss a green light). He gets the jump on me. I close and drop my lighter and go for it. I pull and pass him before I even get to second. I can see his buddy laughing in the rear view as they start pulling up to the light I got caught at. Then I see him pointing to the back of my burb and he literally doubles over in the passenger seat.
Then I remembered. A friend and I were talking about my Suburban. He's talking about how fast it seems, but why I didn't remove the governor. So I write on the back window(in the dust that had settled there) the reason. In big bold letters I put "7800 pounds". So here this guy got whooped, and to add insult to injury, the vehicle that beat him was a 7800 pound mostly stock suburban... That HAD to hurt.
"Oh yeah," the driver says, "watch me take this dude"
"Dude that's a suburban, my grandma's car can take that"
"Yeah but watch how far behind I leave him"
At first I was just giggling inside. If he beats me, it isn't like I really lost anything, I mean really... I'm in my 'Burb. So I figure Meh I'll see what all this kid really has. He looks at me, and I look at him I rev it up to 2k and get ready for the light. Its taking too long, so I let it drop back down, and grab a cig and light it. Well while lighting, the light changes(don't smoke, its bad for you and you might miss a green light). He gets the jump on me. I close and drop my lighter and go for it. I pull and pass him before I even get to second. I can see his buddy laughing in the rear view as they start pulling up to the light I got caught at. Then I see him pointing to the back of my burb and he literally doubles over in the passenger seat.
Then I remembered. A friend and I were talking about my Suburban. He's talking about how fast it seems, but why I didn't remove the governor. So I write on the back window(in the dust that had settled there) the reason. In big bold letters I put "7800 pounds". So here this guy got whooped, and to add insult to injury, the vehicle that beat him was a 7800 pound mostly stock suburban... That HAD to hurt.