Crazy Thursdays

***This story not recommended for Grandma L*** :)

Weekends here are Friday and Saturday. This means that everyone goes crazy when they are driving home Thursdays after work. These are usually the days where I say things like,

"oh look, there is a Porshe SUV racing another Porshe SUV who is also racing a Mercedes, all at top speeds." 

or 

"I didn't know Hyundais could drive that fast."

or

"Bruce, I saw this beautiful car but I don't know what it was because it passed me at lightning speed."

and of course

"Bruce, I saw this man racing down the road in a candy pink SUV with his dish dash flapping out the window"

This past Thursday I had another exceptional experience on the road.  I was driving home on a main highway type road and moved out to the passing lane to overtake a slow truck.  As I was overtaking this truck a large SUV came up behind me. This SUV wasn't there the second before, which gives you an idea of how fast they were driving. They were honking their horn and flashing their lights - a common thing done here to say "GET OUT OF MY WAY." 

Fortunately the slow truck moved one lane over so that I could get out of the fast lane (phew) - I hate being in the passing lane anyway and usually avoid it.

BUT, just as I started to change to my right lane a blankety blank Nissan 350Z that was driving behind the truck sped up to pass me on the right side. This gave me no where to go because as the nissan was passing me on my right, the impatient SUV was already overtaking me on the left.... 3 cars, 2 lanes with me in the middle straddling the white dots.  I calmly said things like:

"Shoot, darn it, lord love a duck." You know, the usual phrases when driving in the UAE. 

Fortunately everything turned out okay and I was able to get far far away from that passing lane. 

Happy weekend and belated Easter. 

p.s. this weekend we saw a Land Rover that looked like it had been plated in gold. A little over the top I think. will attach picture soon.