Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Well, at least I’m still alive…I didn’t start shaking ’til I got home. Gotta love the A14 – solid traffic til midday. Then my journey home, following someone being a bit hesitant about accelerating on the slip road. Lorry bearing down behind me, the car started indicating to turn off, then didn’t, just slowed down, so I slowed down but the lorry wasn’t. I’d made a plan to hit him so the lorry had another couple of foot to stop in. He turned the *wrong way* onto the sliproad out of the petrol station, just in time for me to accelerate away from the lorry before he got me – six inches, maybe. Too close for comfort – and time to make a will.


11 comments

  1. Urk, glad you’re OK.
    It’s helpless moments like this I utterly hate.
    Well, you could just pull over but in heavy traffic that’s not easy, either, nor is getting away afterwards as you won’t have room to accelerate.
    Your body has just released all the adrenaline it’s got, that’s why your shaking. ;o)

    • Well, it wasn’t clearly the wrong decision – which is the right direction to be in. I wonder if the lorry thought I was going to pull over to the other lane and was going to follow me, but there was traffic there when I last checked it before the brake lights came on ahead and I didn’t really have time to think about that properly.

    • Its pretty scary as roads go, especially the right-angle junctions, but I avoid those because my acceleration isn’t *that* good.

    • I just scare myself sometimes by looking in the mirrors[0]…I wasn’t worried about my stopping distance, just that of those behind me.

      [0] this works at home as well as in the car….

  2. No will, because I don’t really have assets, but that is slowly changing, and i don’t really have a family who would have trouble without me so its not been important.

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