Had an interesting experience yesterday on the way home from Ft. Wayne.

After spraining my right ankle tripping on the steps coming out of the Chateau Thomas winery tasting room, I was driving rather carefully past Vinncennes. My foot hurt (duh) so I was trying to avoid having to do much accelerator movement, so was paying rather mor attention to the traffic than normal.

As a result I was watching traffic coming on and off the exits (it's a squirrely highway, obviously planned to sneak people off the new highway and down the old one into town), what did I see, but some idoit in a big old Mercury Marqui COMING DOWN THE EXIT RAMP!!!!!

Scared the crap out of me, as whoever it was was dodging cars and pickups on the ramp and STILL COMING ONTO THE HIGHWAY. Right at me, I might add.

Stomped the brakes and dived for what there was of the median -- I remember a guardrail and very little room, but I didn't look to close, I was afraid to take my eyes off Bozo in the Mecury for fear they would turn toward me and I coudn't escape.

Missed me AND the car beside me (three abreast --- idiot in the center, the two of us on the sides, the idiot heads up the road, going North on southbound highway 41. Didn't hit anyone that I saw, thank heavens, and I assume someone promptly called the cops. There was a trooper pulling someone over a mile or two back, so I HOPE idiot didn't kill anyone. Moving at VERY slow speed, anyway.

I'd have stopped right in front of the car and blocked him if I'd had the chance -- I'd rather have the 300D battered some than see someone killed in a head-on, but I was going too fast to stop.

Really weird seeing a car come down an exit ramp! You'd a thought the sight of all those cars coming at you in both lanes, the signs all facing the wrong way, and the traffic 30 ft away on the other side going north would get a person's attention, but I guess it didn't penetrate whatever haze the driver was in!

Peter

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1972 220D ?? miles
1988 300E 200,012
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