saturday 7/17 Options

[akamiami]

I and a couple other of the so-called 'veteran' dsmcentral guys are getting together tonight in peoria for a grand fantastic circle jerk and anyone and everyone would be welcome to hang out at an impromptu 'event'.

aforementioned event will commence at 21:00 at the recon point alpha bravo willow knolls tango cherry. any TARDiness or insubordinationers will be summarily given a tastely of spy's hipbreaking whalloper chainalang.

[natedogg]

That's good.  After being in some of those close calls with you I think it's a good thing for your safety and others.

This statement would seem to conflict with quite a few others you've made so far about racing on the street. The only way I can make sense of this along with your previous comments is to deduce that you think its a good idea for me to stop street racing for safety reasons, but not for you. Are you the world's first safe street racer?

I have no idea why this thing with inocent bystanders keeps coming up though.  If for some crazy freakin reason some bum should walk out beside a car I'm driving at 1AM in the middle of nowhere then there will be more questions than we can even fathom.  No one want's to kill anyone by accident...it makes no sense as part of the argument.

The innocent bystander or spectator is just an example of one of the free radicals that can make a disaster out of any street race. That's why it makes sense as part of the argument. I can think of two separate occasions where you did have spectators on the side of the road as you were racing by. A race against Chuck in his old Mustang and against Jason in his old rx7. I'm not bringing this up for the purposes of admonishment, more for the fact that you seem to believe that you've never had any spectators watching from the side of the road and thats just not true because I was there.

Anyone that can spend all that money and have all that potential at their right foot, and still shy away from races is a better man than I.  I can't let a good, fast car I own go to waste.

I don't really feel that I'm letting my car go to waste. I don't feel that I have to go out every other weekend and prove myself to other people by racing on the street just to justify to myself that my car isn't going to waste. I can just as easily enjoy it for other reasons. I love driving it, I love working on it, and I love tuning it. I drive it hard every chance I get as long as I feel I'm in a safe environment. Hell, I still race it, but again I have to feel I'm in a safe environment and races setup in one of the two p-towns just isn't it.

Anyone can come take a ride with me and I'll show you the far side of the sanity limit and bring you back in one piece except for the turd you'll shat into your seat for comfort.... and beyond popular belief no one will even know when it happened.

While I'm 75% sure you're being facetious here, I have to mention that no one can make that guarantee. Nobody's a perfect driver. It just takes one mechanical malfunction or one mistake and the fun is over. But, hey, that risk is up to you and your passenger.

As I've tried to make clear in my previous posts, I still enjoy the occasional random street scuffle or even an all out race in a safe place. So I'm still all about going out and having fun with you guys, I just don't want anyone to get hurt.