Helper\’s Corner

Tired!

September 17th, 2006

Assalam’alaikum

My day- I Leave home at about 7-30ish, drive like mad to get to the office in 10 minutes (normally a journey of around 20 minutes) so I can leave by 3-30. We have flexi-time, I can come any time between 7 and 8 and I can leave after 8 full hours. I leave at 3-30 (ten minutes early), drop one of my dads friends home, go home, visit the loo, do wudhu and leave within 15 minutes of arriving. I get to college at about 4-45 (15 minutes late for class) and leave at about 8-50 pm. It takes me a further 50 minutes to get home… that makes it 9-40 pm!! That IS hectic.

Today I’m very happy because I’ve been drifting my disco all day. It’s a 4×4 and nothing more amazing than seeing a 4×4 drifting, it’s so mind bogglingly amazing. I love the sound of tires screaming trying to get traction, the sound of the engine burning two tons of petrol a second and the adrenaline rush as the back threatens to put you through a couple of parked cars.

Yesterday was also an exceptional day, I showed a guy from my college what it means to drive a 4×4. I was going along at a nice steady 140 and I see this Explorer come up from behind me. I speed up, overtake him at about 170 something and then take the exit to my college. The road to my college is dual carriage and that means he was on my tail (because I refuse to go over 150 on a dual carriageway) and he can’t overtake me because of the oncoming traffic. I decide to teach him a lesson so I race down the road all the way until just before a complete 90 degree turn, hit the brake (no one can powerslide a car with such a high COG at 130 kmph), slide my back into position and hit the accelerator. The Explorer guy obviously couldn’t pull off the stunt and almost just shunted into the sand, he kept a respectful distance from me after that, obviously learning to respect the genius in the military green disco.

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