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My neighbor and his cars.

I have a neighbor about a block away that seems to be into cars as well. Thats cool and I have wanted to stop off and chat with him but he does something that irks me and I have avoided him because of it.

He drives a souped up Lightning. Every time he sees me in either my Porsche or my RX7 he seems to loose his mind. He will drop a gear or 2 and either do a burn out or hole shot no matter where he is. Like he is trying to either scare me, show me how bad @ss his car is, or just showing off.

His son has a WRX STI and drives like a maniac as well. I used to see him every morning on my way to work and he was usually 2X the speed limit. Not showing off to me or anything he just drives like a maniac all the time.

One morning on the way to work I saw he had rear ended someone on our main road here in town. His car was embeded in the trunk of the car he hit.

So just this afternoon, I took my 3 y/o for a spin in the Porsche, we went to Blockbuster to get some movies and then to the Gourmet market to get some steaks, twice baked potatos and shopping cart wine. They have shopping carts full of wine discounted heavily. I picked up 4 bottles for $4-$5 each and they were all $20+ bottles.

As we are approaching our turn towards home I am shaken by a huge noise. I immediatly knew who and what it was and a glance out of the corner of my eye revealed the Lightning doing a hole shot past me in the other direction.

God forbid I end up in front of them in the subdivision. The speed limit is 25 and I do it, I live there and do not need to piss of the neighborhood in either of my cars that stand out. They will ride my bumper all the way in. They will also keep goosing their gas and lurching at me over and over like a taunt. I will sometimes pull over and just let them blast by or ignore them. Depending on my mood.

He has done this in the subdivision too. I am getting really tempted to stop and tell him I think he is acting like a fool and I am not impressed but moreso discusted by his sophmoric behavior.

Or, do I just let it go and not feed the guy any attention? It only happens once in a blue moon.
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