A few weeks ago I head out to my mailbox to pick up the mail, only to find it brutally beaten into the opposite side of the road. You can tell that it was not a drive by slaying, but a deliberate, get our of your car, walk up to it and beat-the-hell-out-if-it attack.
Well Im a bit ticked off but remember a few boxes I bashed in my own youth so just chalk it up to pay-backs. $25 later as Im installing the new box my neighbor rolls up and said he saw the mailbox in the ditch yesterday too. I asked him who he thought in the neighborhood would do it. We live in the country and there just aren't that many people around with kids old enough to have pulled off the stunt. He said the only ones around who were old enough to do it were a couple of brothers that lived on up my road. They drive a late model mustang and are ALWAYS screaming by my house at full throttle. Hmmm Ok I got them spotted out.
As luck would have it, a couple days later I happen to drive the GN to work. On my way home, low and behold, who should come screaming up behind me but the mustang brothers. Where we live there is a 2 lane road that has no turnoffs for about 2 miles. They catch up to me just as we get onto this road. I slow way down to about 20 mph knowing they wont be able to stand that speed. Sure enough, they pull into the left lane and attempt to pass me. Notice the attempted part
I let them get up to my door and nail it. When the car started floating the front end up and their headlights were getting very dim I let off. I was probably doing 110 or 120 by then and they were barely in sight.
Our road is a left hand turn at the end of the 2 miles and I slow down again as I make the turn and let them catch up to me. For the next quarter mile till I get to my driveway I do about 25 mph. They dont attempt to pass me and I make sure they see where I turn in, right past my newly installed mailbox.
Well Im a bit ticked off but remember a few boxes I bashed in my own youth so just chalk it up to pay-backs. $25 later as Im installing the new box my neighbor rolls up and said he saw the mailbox in the ditch yesterday too. I asked him who he thought in the neighborhood would do it. We live in the country and there just aren't that many people around with kids old enough to have pulled off the stunt. He said the only ones around who were old enough to do it were a couple of brothers that lived on up my road. They drive a late model mustang and are ALWAYS screaming by my house at full throttle. Hmmm Ok I got them spotted out.
As luck would have it, a couple days later I happen to drive the GN to work. On my way home, low and behold, who should come screaming up behind me but the mustang brothers. Where we live there is a 2 lane road that has no turnoffs for about 2 miles. They catch up to me just as we get onto this road. I slow way down to about 20 mph knowing they wont be able to stand that speed. Sure enough, they pull into the left lane and attempt to pass me. Notice the attempted part
I let them get up to my door and nail it. When the car started floating the front end up and their headlights were getting very dim I let off. I was probably doing 110 or 120 by then and they were barely in sight. Our road is a left hand turn at the end of the 2 miles and I slow down again as I make the turn and let them catch up to me. For the next quarter mile till I get to my driveway I do about 25 mph. They dont attempt to pass me and I make sure they see where I turn in, right past my newly installed mailbox.
