Happy new year fellows.
I´m back at work. It´s very difficult to start working again after a 10 days holiday. I have to be up early once more, and go to Repsol to spend almost the entire day being a bit bored. Although I hadn´t rested during holidays. I should have stayed at Madrid.
When you live outside your own city and can´t see your relatives often it happens when you go back to your old town that you don´t have a free day to do nothing. It´s even worst when you also have a girlfriend and visit her and her family. You don´t have enough time to visit all your own relatives but also you have to visit hers. And in my case it´s even worst. My girlfriend´s mother has another 7 brothers and sisters, I was lucky not to have seen them all.
At the end although I was supposed to sleep and rest during holidays, I ended far more tired than before.
Anyway, I had a very good time visiting my old town, friends and relatives.
I´ll start soon with the new series of car stories. I had a few after two 7 hours trips from Pontevedra to Madrid. I needed 4 hours to drive 25 miles from Madrid to Guadarrama tunnel last 23th December. I had driven at night at a crowded road almost all the way. But there was nothing to mention, apart dangerous overtakings and some bas..ds close to my car´s bottom when I was overtaking at maximum permited speed. It´s like the road only belongs to them. That´s my most hated car behaviour, and specially at motorways. If you´re driving at 90 miles per hour, you see them coming on the mirror as arrows and instead of braking they mantain their speed. If you can´t finish overtaking (and also because you have the right to do it) they´ll finally brake, but only enough to make you feel nervous as they approach your rear, they´re as close as touching your car. I always have the temptation to brake or at least to touch the pedal enough to turn on the break lights to scare them, but after an incident on a road I stopped doing it, I don´t want to feel guilty if I provoque an accident, although they deserve it. What happened that time was a crapy car was doing the rear thing to me on a road, he couldn´t overtake because there were cars coming in front (it was a single lane road). The car was a Sear 127 tuned, but that only means it´s crap with some furnitures, and not a very safety car. So after a while I was pist off and decided to turn the brake lights on. I didn´t really brake, but the guy was so surprised that he moved the wheel and change the lane dangerously. I could hear the tyres being burned while he was trying to control the car. I really believe he deserved to feel in danger, but I could have provoked an accident with a poor guy coming from the opposite direction, and that´s being like them.
Well I hope you had a nice xmas and also that you´ll be happy and lucky this new year.
Greetings and farewell.
Manoel.
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Ah, Mano. You are becoming too Anglo-Saxon in your attitudes.
Why don't you try what I do when they come up your arse [usually flashing their lights] when you are about to overtake a truck. Or, worse [not'worst', by the way], when you are actually halfway through the overtaking manoeuvre. What I do is slow down, signal right and then [slowly] pull in behind the vehicle which I was about to overtake. 99% of the brian-dead maniacs don't really understand that you are taking the piss and just wait for you. And so you have the satisfaction of slowing them down. However, one driver [a gypsy, of course] got rather annoyed when I did it on the A9 to Vigo and then started to slow down in front of me. But as I didn't react he soon got bored with this and drove off.
Happy New Year.
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