[Stangman]

This actually makes me think of a story about the night before Christmas a couple years back. Oddly enough, a couple years ago (maybe 3?), the snow hadn't fallen here in Central Iowa yet, so I had decided to take the Stang out one last time. So I'm sitting at the light and I look to my left and see this Tiburon pull up. He revs and revs and sits back in his seat with his hat cocked off to the side. Then the punk gives this nod like he's ready to go.

I give one good rev and wait til the light turns green and I just take off normal. He; however, does not. Suddenly I hear a terrible BUZZ from his exhaust and only moments after that I here something crackle and pop and snap and several other terrible sounds. Being the nice citizen I am I turn around to see what happened.

Long story short, in order to rev up the car he had shifted into neutral with his auto transmission, and in an attempt to get one awesome launch decided to take it to redline before slamming it down into 1st. I used to have a buddy that would go into neutral with his Focus so that people thought he had a manual. I don't really know why...I imagine the people that could see down into his car from SUVs or trucks got a pretty good laugh.