posted 08-31-2003 09:51 AM                  

What's the most embarrassing thing about it all is that at both lights that I took off at, I got dusted!

posted 08-31-2003 12:55 PM                  

>OK, here's the story.
Ed organized a cruise over to Gatlinburg after the Thurs. dinner. Great group traveling in perfect weather.

On the way back, on the strip in Pigeon F., the group was so large we would get separated at the stop lights. Well of course the lead 2 cars had to get on it once the light turned green. I happened to be the lead car at two lights.
Well I HAD to punch it or break with tradition. After punching it at the light before I was to turn to go back to the hotel, blue lights were shadowing me. The officer was ticked. He said that I shouldn'd have done that at the last light and to pull over into an adjacent lot when the light turned green. NO I DIDN"T PUNCH IT THIS TIME! I politely drove slowly to the lot he pointed out and I didn't EVEN consider running because I'm a nice guy and he did have my license. After letting the other couple go who they also pulled (sorry I never met them. Candy red with a black bra)we had a little conversation. He said he was going to write me up for PRE-ARRAIGNED RACING. I almost messed my pants, because I'm from NC and in the South this charge carries the most points and in some areas results in a suspension of your license.

For once in my life I thought of the right thing to say in reponse. I said, "Officer, if you must ticket me please do not send it to my home address. You see, I've only had this car for a year and my wife said if I got another ticket I would have to park it for 6 months"!

He laughed his a** off and told me to go on in!