Narrowly-avoided ticket

I narrowly avoided a traffic ticket yesterday. I was leaving a drive-through restaurant and was making a right turn. I saw a car coming, but it seemed to be adequately far away. I started to pull out, and realized it was coming faster than I had thought. Instead of stopping or backing up, I accelerated and essentially cut the speeder off, forcing a deceleration. As I did it I thought, “Boy, if that’s a cop, he’s going to be pissed.” Sure enough, it was. The cop (I know I said ‘he’ earlier, but it could have been a woman) flashed his lights at me, which was a nice adrenaline rush, and swerved around me to race down the street. I guess he had something more important to do.

In a bit of twisted accounting, I guess that savings pays for last week’s NPR contribution (otherwise known as “At that price it had better be the mug Christ drank out of at the last supper.”)