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Re: Weird driver

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From: Patrick
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:58
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the_dawggie wrote:
> On Mar 27, 4:05 pm, Millipede Man <milli...@millipede.net> wrote:
>> I encountered a weird driver on my way home from work. When I stopped at a
>> red light, someone pulled up next to and slightly ahead of me. That person
>> stuck out his head and stared at me. Then he started pointing upwards with
>> his hand. I had no idea what that guy was trying to communicate. I hadn't
>> run a red light. I don't think there was anything above my truck that was
>> about to fall down. Could he have meant that I should look more in my rear
>> view mirrors? I check my rear view mirrors more than most drivers, but a
>> small car following *extremely* closely behind will become invisible to me
>> when it is in a blind spot, blocked from view by the tailgate. This guy was
>> driving a small girlie car, so he may well have been following in the blind
>> zone. However, I didn't brake suddenly or anything, so why would he think
>> there was something wrong with the way I was driving?
> 
>> I don't understand California drivers.
> 
> Fuck, that is the funniest thing I've read all day, I'm
> xposting it to another NG.
> 
> I don't think you were doing anything wrong.
> 

I'd have looked up. There may have been a UFO hovering overhead or 
something. A nude supermodel skydiver perhaps?
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