No, not mind readers...

I was driving home yesterday and had occasion to pass a few cars without any particular aggression and without cutting anyone off. I returned to the right lane and started to exit the highway when I see a flash of color in my mirror and little side mirrors that I put in to help with the blind spot.

Apparently the driver of one of the cars I passed felt he needed to show me something and was passing me in the break-down lane and cut me off as I moved toward the exit lane.

I'm afraid I didn't take it very well - should have just let him and his micro-sized member go ahead and be done with it. Instead I caught up to him and spanked him in the slalom of turns leading to the next light, but not before my ESP spanked me back to reality on the last sweeper.

Soon enough the other jerk came along and skulked away without any more shows.

When I went back today I found there was a fine coating of sand where I was trying to pull .9 G's. That would account for why the ESP kicked in and shut me down. It made me look like I was a real a$$ who knew how to drive instead of a real a$$ going across the road into the guard rail.

It was a strange feeling when the car shut down the power to the engine and braked, perfectly correcting the skid and leaving me exactly where I wanted to be. Lesson learned.