The Jack Rabbit

Just because you are 30 years old and have a fast car doesn’t mean your have good driving skills. Take for example the typical jack rabbit that all of us have seen buzzing down the highway at 80 to 90 MPH, weaving in and out of traffic, getting stuck multiple times behind a slow car because he or she made the wrong lane move. You see they don’t think four or five moves ahead like in a chess game but jump at the first opening they see. The end result for all their hard work is that they may have a ten second lead on the smarter drivers who pick their moves carefully.

After all that hard work the jack rabbit now takes the same exit ramp that you do, hits the brakes going into the first turn and now you know you got the rabbit, I guess the turn scares rabbits at the speed they are going. You know this exit; it’s a long S turn and you enter buy accelerating slightly and banking to the right, passing the jack rabbit. You accelerate more while going up the incline, jack rabbit is mad because you passed him, but rabbit is in the wrong gear and can’t catch up as you go up the hill. You set yourself up for the next part of the S which is a fairly sharp left hand turn. This turn has those orange night time reflectors imbedded in the road to mark the left hand edge of the lane. You enter the turn and hold the car just to the point were the left front tire just touches the edge of each reflector making a slight ticking sound. Nearing the end of turn you let the car drift out and across to the outside lane and enter a long down hill straight. About halfway down the straight you look in the rear view mirror and see the rabbit is just coming of the turn, a full 3 tenths of a mile behind you.

Now you enter onto another major 8 lane highway and rabbit is working his way back up. Ahead the road divides, go straight and you enter local traffic, keep left to take the high speed bypass. By now rabbit has passed you again and enters the bypass, which is a sweeping left, rabbit brakes again entering the turn, you speed up and try to pass rabbit on the outside lane in the turn. Rabbit isn’t going to have any of this again so rabbit guns it, but you know something rabbit doesn’t, so you keep the pressure on rabbit until just before the turn enters a long downhill straightaway. At the last second you back off with a smile on your face and let rabbit pass you like a bat out of hell. Rabbit who is now doing about 80 mile an hour suddenly discovers what you know; the state police car waiting at the end of the down hill. Flashing lights and a few seconds later it’s all over for rabbit who will be waiting for about 10 minutes to hear those famous words “Have a nice day”!