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So funny story from today.
I haven't gotten a local PCP because the doctors' offices here have crazy long wait times for new patients. I feel sorry for the person who moves here with a case of strep throat, the shortest wait time I've found is 2 months for a new patient sick appointment. The longest so far is 5 months.
Yeah, I'm not waiting. I drove the 100 miles to my old PCP.
I chose a route that is a bit rural but heavily traveled and bypasses the areas that always have a major backup. Hence why it's heavily traveled. Four lanes, divided by a grassy median. I'm driving back, not paying attention to my speed in the slightest. I was a bad girl and was in the left lane and while I knew I was moving at a pretty good clip I was getting passed on the right from time to time. I was kinda aware that there was someone behind me, not that close but not that far and he hadn't been there the whole time, but I didn't pay any real attention as he wasn't kissing my bumper.
I go over a low hill and speed trap! The cop was sitting still in the left turn lane coming from the other direction. All he would have to do is take a quick U-turn. I look down, 65. The posted limit is 55. I braked abruptly just long enough to get to 60 in a hurry and passed him at that speed. What I said, well this site is used in schools, use your imagination. What I prayed was that he was pretty generous in how much above the limit he would ignore people.
As I passed him, he started moving forward. Same vocal censored word. I watched him in my rear-view mirror, sure enough he made a U-turn and turned on his lights. Same vocal censored word. (Okay, so my sailor vocabulary isn't very inventive.) Yeah, I'm busted. Maybe if I sound pitiful enough while describing the steroid shot and the tendonitis in three different places in the same arm he'll let me off with a warning. Maybe, right?
He was still a bit back, since moving from a stopped position and making the U-turn slowed him down, but I pulled all the way over to the right immediately. What's the sense in making him get close before pulling over? And then he went right past me and pulled over the guy that had been behind me until I pulled over. Whew!!!!
I guess the guy behind me was moving significantly faster than me, since the cop ignored the easy prey (me, I was virtually stopped) and went after him.
I haven't gotten a local PCP because the doctors' offices here have crazy long wait times for new patients. I feel sorry for the person who moves here with a case of strep throat, the shortest wait time I've found is 2 months for a new patient sick appointment. The longest so far is 5 months.
Yeah, I'm not waiting. I drove the 100 miles to my old PCP.
I chose a route that is a bit rural but heavily traveled and bypasses the areas that always have a major backup. Hence why it's heavily traveled. Four lanes, divided by a grassy median. I'm driving back, not paying attention to my speed in the slightest. I was a bad girl and was in the left lane and while I knew I was moving at a pretty good clip I was getting passed on the right from time to time. I was kinda aware that there was someone behind me, not that close but not that far and he hadn't been there the whole time, but I didn't pay any real attention as he wasn't kissing my bumper.
I go over a low hill and speed trap! The cop was sitting still in the left turn lane coming from the other direction. All he would have to do is take a quick U-turn. I look down, 65. The posted limit is 55. I braked abruptly just long enough to get to 60 in a hurry and passed him at that speed. What I said, well this site is used in schools, use your imagination. What I prayed was that he was pretty generous in how much above the limit he would ignore people.
As I passed him, he started moving forward. Same vocal censored word. I watched him in my rear-view mirror, sure enough he made a U-turn and turned on his lights. Same vocal censored word. (Okay, so my sailor vocabulary isn't very inventive.) Yeah, I'm busted. Maybe if I sound pitiful enough while describing the steroid shot and the tendonitis in three different places in the same arm he'll let me off with a warning. Maybe, right?
He was still a bit back, since moving from a stopped position and making the U-turn slowed him down, but I pulled all the way over to the right immediately. What's the sense in making him get close before pulling over? And then he went right past me and pulled over the guy that had been behind me until I pulled over. Whew!!!!
I guess the guy behind me was moving significantly faster than me, since the cop ignored the easy prey (me, I was virtually stopped) and went after him.