Story of my trip to Long Island
09-06-2002, 12:23 AM
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So as I stated in the crazy thread, I went to Long Island today to pick up an RB turbo back from 13bace sans downpipe. I'll keep this to the point mainly.
To start off, speeding ticket. Officer claims 91 in a 65. Not sure if the courts are going to beleive him as I was driving an 85 Dodge Omni with its raging 62hp@4800rpm
Second, mapquest screws me over, and ends up getting me stuck on some dirt road on top of a mountain in PA. Another cop comes along, I pull him over for a change and get directions on how to get where I need to go.
About an hour after this, I'm getting close to Voskos stomping grounds in Lake Hiawatha, and all of a sudden hear, "THUNK, scrrrrrrrtcccccchhhhhhhhhh....".
I pull over, curse for 5 minutes, get out of the car and see the muffler has rusted off, and is only holding on by two donuts. I grab a dull screwdriver and slowly cut them off on the side of the 8 lane filled with rush hour traffic NJ turnpike.
I also tried flagging down a Testarossa for help. Apparently it was more than I could afford.
Next, we have the wrong turn taking me onto a highway that leads to the New England states. So I turn off...onto the only exit that doesnt have a reentry ramp! 11.gif
So I'm tooling around in the projects, finally get back on where I need to be going, almost get screwed by mapquests fucked up directions again, and then it was time. The Long Island Expressway.
******* THE LONG ISLAND EXPRESSWAY AND ITS OXYMORONISH NAME TO HELL, BACK, TO HELL AGAIN, BACK, AND YEP, YOU GUESSED IT, TO HELL AGAIN!***
Two hours to go 40 miles!
Then I finally get to the exit. Mapquest gets me one last time and ends up runing me around for an hour trying to find a house that should have taken 10 minutes tops.
I grab the exhaust, pay his brother, and am back in the car again in 10 minutes.
The last fiasco was getting the **** off the island. At least this time it wasn't rush hour, so it only took me 45 min to get off the Long Island Expressway, and another 45 to go the 10 miles through Manhattan to the George Washington Bridge.
After that was all over, I tailed some jackass in a Grand Vitara going 80 all the way to Syracuse, then another hour going 75 to Rochester.
All in all, 14 hours, an expensive speeding ticket, almost $20 in tolls, $40 in gas, and way too much stress.
Next time, I'll use FEDEX :bigok:
To start off, speeding ticket. Officer claims 91 in a 65. Not sure if the courts are going to beleive him as I was driving an 85 Dodge Omni with its raging 62hp@4800rpm
Second, mapquest screws me over, and ends up getting me stuck on some dirt road on top of a mountain in PA. Another cop comes along, I pull him over for a change and get directions on how to get where I need to go.
About an hour after this, I'm getting close to Voskos stomping grounds in Lake Hiawatha, and all of a sudden hear, "THUNK, scrrrrrrrtcccccchhhhhhhhhh....".
I pull over, curse for 5 minutes, get out of the car and see the muffler has rusted off, and is only holding on by two donuts. I grab a dull screwdriver and slowly cut them off on the side of the 8 lane filled with rush hour traffic NJ turnpike.
I also tried flagging down a Testarossa for help. Apparently it was more than I could afford.
Next, we have the wrong turn taking me onto a highway that leads to the New England states. So I turn off...onto the only exit that doesnt have a reentry ramp! 11.gif
So I'm tooling around in the projects, finally get back on where I need to be going, almost get screwed by mapquests fucked up directions again, and then it was time. The Long Island Expressway.
******* THE LONG ISLAND EXPRESSWAY AND ITS OXYMORONISH NAME TO HELL, BACK, TO HELL AGAIN, BACK, AND YEP, YOU GUESSED IT, TO HELL AGAIN!***
Two hours to go 40 miles!
Then I finally get to the exit. Mapquest gets me one last time and ends up runing me around for an hour trying to find a house that should have taken 10 minutes tops.
I grab the exhaust, pay his brother, and am back in the car again in 10 minutes.
The last fiasco was getting the **** off the island. At least this time it wasn't rush hour, so it only took me 45 min to get off the Long Island Expressway, and another 45 to go the 10 miles through Manhattan to the George Washington Bridge.
After that was all over, I tailed some jackass in a Grand Vitara going 80 all the way to Syracuse, then another hour going 75 to Rochester.
All in all, 14 hours, an expensive speeding ticket, almost $20 in tolls, $40 in gas, and way too much stress.
Next time, I'll use FEDEX :bigok:
09-07-2002, 01:16 AM
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damn, didn't you know that the Long Island Expressway is the worlds largest parking lot??
NEVER get on the LIE durring rush hour, unless you have nothing better to do with the next 4 hours of your life.
you could have avoided all of those problems if Jim had just told me he was selling the exaust. i live 10 mins from his old place and would have tok it off his hands
NEVER get on the LIE durring rush hour, unless you have nothing better to do with the next 4 hours of your life.
you could have avoided all of those problems if Jim had just told me he was selling the exaust. i live 10 mins from his old place and would have tok it off his hands
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