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For those of you who don't know I'm a courier. And these days I'm working in a great big cargo van with the company logo slathered all over it.
So I was working, and stopped at a red light in downtowne Portland. Another van for a competing courier company rolled up and stopped next to me. Us delivery people are generally respectful of each other, regardless of our affiliations. We all do the same thing, we just get our paychecks from different sources. I looked over at him, he looked back at me. There was a grin and nod exchanged. But I was feeling a bit spunky and a lot dorky so I put the van in neutral and reved it. He looked at me and laughed and I returned the expression, and then agressively put my hands on the top of the steering wheel and reved again. The light turned green and we both made a retarded display of tire spinning on wet pavement as we struggled to gain traction. Sure, not mashing the throttle would have made more sense, but wouldn't have been nearly as fun. At equal speeds we rushed towards the next intersection. As couriers we both know that if you aren't going 18mph through here you'll catch the next light red. So we both locked up our brakes and slid to a stop just in front of the crosswalk as the light turned red. I looked over and this time he reved first, right before me. We had that whole look at you, look at the light, look at you again, exchange. This time I reved the van up to I dont know what (it's an auto with no tach) then threw it into drive when the cross light turned red. He must have done the same thing because we both spun our tires through the intersection at the same pace. Tires were spinning and squeeling like crazy. We went almost the entire block without traction before we had to stop again. We looked at each other and laughed. He gave me a thumbs up . Then I turned right and he turned left. The whole thing was just hillariously stupid. I loved it!
So I was working, and stopped at a red light in downtowne Portland. Another van for a competing courier company rolled up and stopped next to me. Us delivery people are generally respectful of each other, regardless of our affiliations. We all do the same thing, we just get our paychecks from different sources. I looked over at him, he looked back at me. There was a grin and nod exchanged. But I was feeling a bit spunky and a lot dorky so I put the van in neutral and reved it. He looked at me and laughed and I returned the expression, and then agressively put my hands on the top of the steering wheel and reved again. The light turned green and we both made a retarded display of tire spinning on wet pavement as we struggled to gain traction. Sure, not mashing the throttle would have made more sense, but wouldn't have been nearly as fun. At equal speeds we rushed towards the next intersection. As couriers we both know that if you aren't going 18mph through here you'll catch the next light red. So we both locked up our brakes and slid to a stop just in front of the crosswalk as the light turned red. I looked over and this time he reved first, right before me. We had that whole look at you, look at the light, look at you again, exchange. This time I reved the van up to I dont know what (it's an auto with no tach) then threw it into drive when the cross light turned red. He must have done the same thing because we both spun our tires through the intersection at the same pace. Tires were spinning and squeeling like crazy. We went almost the entire block without traction before we had to stop again. We looked at each other and laughed. He gave me a thumbs up . Then I turned right and he turned left. The whole thing was just hillariously stupid. I loved it!