Bold new Corsa verges on the sublime
Trouble was, the guy in the Honda CR-V immediately behind the old guy wasn’t at all impressed and blew his horn angrily as I sailed by the two of them in my nippy lime green Opel Corsa SRi. In fact, the Honda man was so incensed, that once he himself had passed the Escort, he did a Grace Jones on it and pulled up to the bumper — baby — of the Corsa and started taking pictures of the car on his mobile phone, which actually struck me as being every bit as dangerous as anything I had just done. A couple of days later I was contacted by the gardaí to say they had received a complaint from a man who had reported my driving. The man, the garda said, did not wish to pursue his complaint by way of a prosecution — he merely wanted me warned as to my future behaviour.
Duly warned, I asked the garda if he would mention to the complainant that taking pictures of other road users on his smartphone was not exactly in compliance with the rules of the road either. The garda said he would. I’m not exactly sure what the moral of the tale is, but the one certain truth which emerged was that if you’re driving a very nippy lime green Opel Corsa SRi, you’re going to get noticed.
