Speeding

Yes it was dark, so 'technically' 35 was the speed limit.

 

And 'technically' if the lights aren't flashing can traffic flow at 45mph? When dark? While eating a hamburger?

 

I was doing 46, and proud I was mostly abiding by the law, when the SO flashed his lights at whomever was about to be in trouble.

 

I was in trouble. It was me.

 

Carefully pulling over — and that road is a horrible place for LE to pull someone over — their safety and all, but he wasn't going to stop following me so I pulled to the side of the road.

 

"You were going 46."

 

"Why yes I was."

 

"I bumped my lights to get you to slow down, but you didn't slow down even a little."

 

"Because I was doing 46."

 

"The speed limit is 35."

 

In my head: what the heck?

 

"You sit here for a minute."

 

It's dark, I didn't get to watch him coming and going, you know, to decide if he is working out enough.

 

I was fortunate, he had mercy.

 

In my defense, those signs vary from sign to sign and you darn well better be a speed reader. Not all of them have flashing lights indicating seasonal speed limit changes. Hand over heart, in my humble opinion the limits change hourly.