To pass or not to pass?
That is the question. So, you’re going along the highway, saaaaaaaay, “slightly above average speed” and eventually stumble upon a bloody-slow-as-hell convoy of cars. You’ve got a doctors appointment in 45 minutes and you need to get there sooner than later. You look ahead, and you see in front of you… a blue truck, a red car, and a police car. You are the fourth vehicle. The speed limit is 90. Most people go 100 and it’s okay. But the truck — seeing the cop — doesn’t speed at all. Not only that, he SLOWS the freak down to 80kms an hour. Listen! Just ’cause you got a cop on your arse, doesn’t mean you need to SLOW down. It means you can go to the speed limit. Honest!
So, what a dilemma the red car has. The cop is right behind him… you need to go over the speed limit to pass him safely… but the arse is going slower than he needs to be! What to do, what to do! Well, thank GOD the red car grew some…. guts and passed him… without going excessively. Thank Goodness! One down, one more to go… so, here I am… there’s a blue truck, the cop car and me. I’m bloody freakin’ impatient. We’re going 80. Passing lanes? Couldn’t come fast enough. And, there were opportunities to pass but I would have had to be speedy, speedy!
Ugh.
Soooooooooo, finally, 20 LONG freakin’ kilometers later, a nice little passing lane comes along. Fine! Fantastic!
The cop car starts to pass the dude in the truck. And so do I. But then, the cop SLOWLY goes into the right hand lane, leaving very very little room between the blue truck and him for me to get inside.
Now, I beg of you … what would you do?
Would you A) maintain your current speed (it’s up to about 85-90 kms now) and wait for the cop to slightly move up so you can eek your way into it? Or, would you B) Gradually increase your speed to *just* pass the cop car (bringing you to about 100kms an hour) and go in front of the cop car, covering your arse with proper signaling and resisting all urges to go over 100kms????
I choose B.
OMG, I was so afraid the cop would be a jerk and stop me. But, again — he too had to sit behind the truck for ages on end and I’m sure was frustrated too…. and, I did pass safely, and I didn’t speed excessively… and… well, the cop just followed me for the next 20 kms… except, it didn’t go as slowly as the other one so I didn’t mind so much. I would rather have a cop follow me at 100kms an hour instead of me following a cop at 80kms!
So, what would you do? It’s a bit funny now but - maaaaaaaan, I was getting some frustrated!
Posted on January 24th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Funny
Honestly, I probably would have put on some tunes and waited it out, but then again the Dr, appt would get me too. I think i would have to stick to the speed limit since technically you shouldnt have “speed” to pass and I can’t afford a ticket and the cops scare me!
OMG!!! I think I was stuck behind the slow guy too. Not *really* but almost the exact same thing happened to me last week on the way home to SF. Except, now get this, the cop in question was going in the opposite direction (headed to NB) when, just before he reached my little pack of cars (there were three of us), he spun around into our lane, skidded on the ice, hit the shoulder, and almost took us all out. Then, he barrelled down on some guy in a minivan in the pack of cars in front of us (are you following this?) and the minivan guy slowed right down to 80. That cop followed the van guy for 10 kms, and when we got to the passing lane, the cop pulled out but didn’t pass. It was soooo frustrating!! Then the cop tailed the van for another 10 kms to the next passing lane. This time, the cop didn’t pull out to pass but by then we were all too skeptical to pass anyone. Just past the passing lane, the cop stomps on his brakes and pulls over to the side of the road. No blinker, no lights, no nothing, and just lets us all pass, then turns back toward NB and takes off.
What the point of all that was, I have no clue. But given that that cop almost took me and two other cars out with his spin-around shinanigans, I wanted SOMEONE to get a ticket. No one did. I think I might have figured it out though … when I could finally pass the van guy, the license plate was caked in snow. You couldn’t even see if there WAS a license plate. So, the cop decides to spin out on the road and risk my life but then he won’t risk his own to pull over an unknown driver? Greeeeeeaaaat.
And you can’t make a complaint because then you’re marked for life. Even greeeeeaaaaater
Was the van green? I know they’ve been on the lookout for a green mini-van since that accident a few years ago that killed like, 3 people….
hehe funny we’ve probably all been in situations like that
when it comes to driving im so happy to live on this side of the worldddd
I think it WAS green … still, I could do without the whole crazy spinning around cop thing