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The Old Person Card

I let my hair grow out to it's mostly gray. Today I got pulled over for speeding and he had me for 60 in a 40 zone (100 in a 65 in KPH). Oops. Told the cop it was the only car I could find with a manual gear box, that I had never owned anything that fast, and that I was still getting used to it which is all true. The ticket would have been $250 and he let me go with just a verbal warning. Woo Hoo!

MizJ 8 May 20
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Naughty girl

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Florida! I was in grad school at FSU with a teacher there for summer school in 1961. She and a guy also there for the summer raced west one day and a trooper stopped the pair. He got a ticket; she got a “Take it easy.” BTW, she and I started a square dance group that summer.

It helps if you have a clean license. I made it sound like I don't normally speed, not exactly truthful.

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You found a nice cop. Hey! You made it to level 8. Congrats!

He was disappointed that I wasn't a young guy with points on his license I think.

@MizJ Maybe. We're you driving fast? Either way, you'll take it.

@barjoe I was 20 over the limit.

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slick. a fast car with a manual gearbox. sounds fun.

Why drive a golf cart?

@MizJ i hear you, i kinda do tho. old 57hp bug. lol.

@hankster Do you take it on the highway?!

@MizJ i have but i prefer to keep it under 60 or so. its a lot of fun. daily driver. slow is my general setting anyway.

@hankster I had a base model Honda CRX that was less than 100 horses. I would shut the A/C off when on the entrance ramp and put it back on when I got it up to speed. A friend was riding with me one day and almost fell out he was laughing so hard.

@MizJ that is funny. was that just your "need for speed"? friend had a ford escort way back. it woulnd'nt hardly go uphill. we would joke about getting out and walking.

@MizJ those crxs were neat. i had an si that would fly.

@hankster The SI was faster than mine. They drive 80 or so MPH on the highways here and it was less scary having those few extra horses, especially with all the semis and huge SUVs.

@MizJ i hear you. need some zip sometimes. i avoid the hurrying when i can. mostly backroad miles for me.

@hankster I call I-95 in Florida the Great American Road Race, it's insane. The tourists and old people don't help.

@MizJ you name it well. in my exp. any over-populated string of civilization makes for crazy highway stuff. nationwide. there are always old folks and tourists in fla. more than most. good thing they don't let tractors and combines on the interstates here lol.

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