OK...here's my ranting post for the week. (It usually goes to a different, less mature forum but I think this thread needs to die...and my posts usually kill them!)
I went to last year's mod day at the farm and had a great time. Yes there was some spirited driving on occasion but at that time I believe at least one of the neighbors were "tuning" too. It was fun and I wish I could have made it again; perhaps next time. I add this because I went on that road to "tune" the Regal. What I noted then is that the road was not well paved, a bit rough and about as wide as two horse carriages. I got the car up to about 120 and had to let off because the road was throwing it all over the place. As a matter of fact, I don’t think I saw any one person repeat a “tuning” run twice because of this. To think that two people would line up their cars side by side and let em’ rip just confirms to me that the short bus makes a lot of stops at member’s houses.
What Rick and Leo are going through is going to make a great beer story about their youth when they’re old and boring like me. They are dealing with the consequences of their actions, they’ll be better for it.
Vipermike, the attitudes you display for respect to others around you shows the narcissism of your youth. What Hale and other dirty old men like me are trying to tell you is that there are consequences to your actions that extend beyond your personal space. This is a lesson that generally comes with age and/or maturity after people have built enough life experience to start recognizing the cause and affect of their actions onto those they’ve let into their growing personal space.
Laws are passed to help prevent our narcissistic youth’s actions from affecting innocent people who pass through their personal space periodically, like the person pulling out of a driveway. Law is also passed to prevent those same youth from hurting themselves even though they willingly participate in harmful activities. This is done because most youth do not fully understand how deeply the consequences of their actions affect family and friends. It is difficult to fully appreciate the responsibility and sacrifice associated with owning a home, working a career or being a parent without experiencing it firsthand. This is one of the reasons we pass laws to prevent this type of activities so that you, ViperMike, can live long enough to experience these joys in life and hopefully won’t have to deal with someone else’s choices affecting you and your family as you pass through their personal space.
Laws are passed for a reason. Because you feel that you are that much better in action and reaction to the world around you than those herded humans that the laws were passed to protect doesn’t mean that you have a “pass” to act outside of those same laws. I’ll tell you, “You aren’t as good as you think you may be!” No one is, most of all me but I thank God that I didn’t kill the friends that I hit with my car when I was a narcissistic youth like you.
Hale, don’t crucify Vipermike too bad, you were young once too and did you ever listen much to older people with more experience? (No matter how much the make sense!)
