George -
I'm only 25 and I have an R/T , and it that situation , I think you did the
best thing by NOT racing him .
That guy's attempts to make himself better than everyone around him will
someday be very costly.....I know I wouldn't want to be a part of it .
Just blow it off and know that you were the only one there that night that
had any damn sense .
At 03:13 PM 7/3/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Ok, sombody tell me why all my friends say I was wrong in truning down a race
>with this pesky RX-7, driven by a knuckle dragging, no brain moron.
>Here is the story....
>Last nite a bunch of us were just hanging out, and shooting the shit in a
>parking lot. We somtimes race here, cause it is at the end of an industrial
>strip and it road is actually better than the local dragstrip. Anyway, there
>is this guy (about 35 or so) that I see in the morning on my way to work. I
>raced and beat him on monday, and he was not happy. I friend of mine told me
>he wanted a rematch, and told the guy where I'd be last nite. So the guy
>shows up and wants to race, I said sure.
>We pull up and line up I start to smoke the tires and look over at him to see
>if he was doing the same thing and that is when I saw it....I saw the top
of a
>car seat for a kid, WITH THE KID SITTING IN IT!!!! The kid couldn't have been
>more than 2 years old!!
>When my friend flashed the flashlite at us, the RX-7 took off, and I just sat
>there. I was not going to race him with a baby in the car. I just backed up
>and pulled into the parking lot, shut off my Dak and got out. At this point
>everyone there just started verbaly abusing the shit out of me. I have a
very
>thick skin todwards this type of abuse, but nobody really cared why I backed
>down.
>My whole reason is, if there was to be an accident and the kid became
injured,
>or killed I dont know how I could have lived with myself. I want all of your
>honest opinions on this matter, cause it is really starting to bother me that
>I didn't do it.
>George :-{ )
>
W . Jack Hilton III
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