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- Oct 1, 2021
We doing speeding stories?
I've never had a ticket but I got damn close once. I was heading home from school in a beatup 1988 oldsmobile going like 80 in a 55 construction zone. It was during a time where like 20 miles of this freeway was marked as a construction zone even though they weren't doing anything to 95% of it and they weren't doing anything to it at all that day. Being a dumbass kid I was sitting firmly in the left lane despite there being extremely light traffic. A cop pulled up behind me and rode my ass. Again, being a dumb kid I just thought he was tailgating me to go faster, not measuring my speed.
He flashed his lights and siren and I damn near went off the shoulder. He pulled up alongside me and flashed 55 on his hands and drove off, staying dead on 55 on the left lane the entire time. The pucker factor was real.
He probably saw a dumb kid in a beatup old car on a mostly empty freeway and figured I wasn't worth the effort to write up, which was fine with me. I learned my lesson.
And another time my mother was headed up to pick me up from school and she was busted for going 45 in a 35 down a road that was just recently slowed down to 35. She actually got a ticket for that.
I've never had a ticket but I got damn close once. I was heading home from school in a beatup 1988 oldsmobile going like 80 in a 55 construction zone. It was during a time where like 20 miles of this freeway was marked as a construction zone even though they weren't doing anything to 95% of it and they weren't doing anything to it at all that day. Being a dumbass kid I was sitting firmly in the left lane despite there being extremely light traffic. A cop pulled up behind me and rode my ass. Again, being a dumb kid I just thought he was tailgating me to go faster, not measuring my speed.
He flashed his lights and siren and I damn near went off the shoulder. He pulled up alongside me and flashed 55 on his hands and drove off, staying dead on 55 on the left lane the entire time. The pucker factor was real.
He probably saw a dumb kid in a beatup old car on a mostly empty freeway and figured I wasn't worth the effort to write up, which was fine with me. I learned my lesson.
And another time my mother was headed up to pick me up from school and she was busted for going 45 in a 35 down a road that was just recently slowed down to 35. She actually got a ticket for that.