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Seems like most of this lj is about me driving to work. So, Senryū:
Ghostly night-footsteps
Echoing into darkness
Raindrops on a bridge
A whiff of perfume
As your clinging hands give way
Happy landings, bitch
Nature magazines
Bananas in the sunshine
Monkey's alone time
And now, back to my irregularly scheduled programming:
Scariness on 880. Driving along, rockmellowing out to Chumbawamba, I pull right to overtake bigass SUV. Tan/brown generic 80's Volvo (240?) pulls out into the same lane a couple of feet behind me. Accelerate and get back into carpool lane (~9:30AM, legal for me to be there), guy behind me does the same. Flattered, thinking I've got a grasshopper of my driving-fu, I keep going for a while.
Another car cuts in between Volvo and car-in-front-of-Volvo. A couple of velocity shifts later, 240's behind me again. We're in a pretty big traffic bubble, but he doesn't overtake and matches my speedups and downs. "Weird", think I, "maybe not enough power to pass me", so I change lanes and give him space to leave.
!!!
He changes lanes behind me. "Huh... exit time for you?", I get back in carpool. He follows. Been about 10 miles since I noticed he was sticking to me and I'm getting pretty creeped out.
I cut into the Exit Only lane and start slowing down. Still behind me.
Pull back into carpool. Still behind me.
We're in Hayward now, so I take advantage of heavier traffic and put a couple of cars between us. He's still following when I take my exit (real one this time), get off the cloverleaf and stop at a red light. Three cars behind me, U-turn lane goes green, he gets in and zooms by me. Asian(?) dude with big aviator sunglasses. That's the last I've seen of him.
Sweat-slick steering wheel
My fear of confrontation
Mysterious Volvo
Ghostly night-footsteps
Echoing into darkness
Raindrops on a bridge
A whiff of perfume
As your clinging hands give way
Happy landings, bitch
Nature magazines
Bananas in the sunshine
Monkey's alone time
And now, back to my irregularly scheduled programming:
Scariness on 880. Driving along, rockmellowing out to Chumbawamba, I pull right to overtake bigass SUV. Tan/brown generic 80's Volvo (240?) pulls out into the same lane a couple of feet behind me. Accelerate and get back into carpool lane (~9:30AM, legal for me to be there), guy behind me does the same. Flattered, thinking I've got a grasshopper of my driving-fu, I keep going for a while.
Another car cuts in between Volvo and car-in-front-of-Volvo. A couple of velocity shifts later, 240's behind me again. We're in a pretty big traffic bubble, but he doesn't overtake and matches my speedups and downs. "Weird", think I, "maybe not enough power to pass me", so I change lanes and give him space to leave.
!!!
He changes lanes behind me. "Huh... exit time for you?", I get back in carpool. He follows. Been about 10 miles since I noticed he was sticking to me and I'm getting pretty creeped out.
I cut into the Exit Only lane and start slowing down. Still behind me.
Pull back into carpool. Still behind me.
We're in Hayward now, so I take advantage of heavier traffic and put a couple of cars between us. He's still following when I take my exit (real one this time), get off the cloverleaf and stop at a red light. Three cars behind me, U-turn lane goes green, he gets in and zooms by me. Asian(?) dude with big aviator sunglasses. That's the last I've seen of him.
Sweat-slick steering wheel
My fear of confrontation
Mysterious Volvo