That sinking feeling...
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From: NW Georgia
That sinking feeling...
I've been on the road for the past 2 1/2 weeks...airplane and cars, unfortunately. Anyway, hit Atlanta Hartsfield, bag is waiting and I'm a happy camper. Get to the pickup, get on 75/85 N and head to the city. I got in the HOV lane as quickly as I could, and as I merged into that lane I noticed an Atlanta Motor Cop in the far right lane on a real pretty Atlanta PD blue Road King. I just bought a new Road King Classic and I now notice all of them. I also noticed that I was following an Atlanta PD patrol car at about 75 mph so I figured it's still a good day!
Anyway, I'm still smiling to myself and turn back to the traffic ahead, look in the left outside mirror, then the rearview and there, accelerating towards me until he was right on my tail and big in the mirror was the Atlanta Motor Cop on the Atlanta PD blue Road King...and I'm still doing 75 mph...no longer a happy camper but one trying to mentally figure out how much my insurance was going to increase after he wrote me a very, very large speeding ticket. I'm waiting and waiting for him to hit the lights but at the next exit to downtown he veers off left, accelerates away, and my heart began to slow down.
Man, been a long time since I've had a ticket...like 35 years. But seeing that Motor Cop there on top of my butt brought back that same familiar feeling in the pit of my stomach. Just a little welcome home story for the day...
Anyway, I'm still smiling to myself and turn back to the traffic ahead, look in the left outside mirror, then the rearview and there, accelerating towards me until he was right on my tail and big in the mirror was the Atlanta Motor Cop on the Atlanta PD blue Road King...and I'm still doing 75 mph...no longer a happy camper but one trying to mentally figure out how much my insurance was going to increase after he wrote me a very, very large speeding ticket. I'm waiting and waiting for him to hit the lights but at the next exit to downtown he veers off left, accelerates away, and my heart began to slow down.
Man, been a long time since I've had a ticket...like 35 years. But seeing that Motor Cop there on top of my butt brought back that same familiar feeling in the pit of my stomach. Just a little welcome home story for the day...
Last edited by HaydenHeywoodHayes; Jul 20, 2011 at 03:39 PM.
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The last time I was in Hotlanta, everybody was doing 75....and that was in the slow lane. 
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Road Warrior
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Atlanta PD has bigger fish to fry than 75 mph on the interstate. I know that sinking feeling well though lol
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I do have an H-D sticker in the back window (and a #3 trailer hitch plug...the Intimidator lives!). I remember several years ago they did an analysis of speeds on our Perimeter highway, Interstate 285, a 63-mile loop around the city. On a Saturday evening, the average speed on a stretch of the West loop, between
I-20W (toward Birmingham) and I-75S (to Florida) was over 90 mph...Atlanta is speed crazy, Man.
And it has been nearly 35 years. I was working as a New Car Salesman at a Pontiac store in Tampa, Florida, had a '77 Trans Am Special Edition (remember Smokey and the Bandit...I made my mortgage payment every time I sold one of those cars...) as a demonstrator (back in the day when we got a new demo every 5,000 miles, free gas...ah, the good old days hustling iron...I was always in the top 5 each month in sales and got my pick of demos), one of the few we got with the 400 c.i. engine and a 4-speed transmission with a Hurst shifter. Along Dale Mabry Highway heading to work one morning and I crossed the bridge just before Hillsborough Avenue and there he was...and he got me.
I-20W (toward Birmingham) and I-75S (to Florida) was over 90 mph...Atlanta is speed crazy, Man.
And it has been nearly 35 years. I was working as a New Car Salesman at a Pontiac store in Tampa, Florida, had a '77 Trans Am Special Edition (remember Smokey and the Bandit...I made my mortgage payment every time I sold one of those cars...) as a demonstrator (back in the day when we got a new demo every 5,000 miles, free gas...ah, the good old days hustling iron...I was always in the top 5 each month in sales and got my pick of demos), one of the few we got with the 400 c.i. engine and a 4-speed transmission with a Hurst shifter. Along Dale Mabry Highway heading to work one morning and I crossed the bridge just before Hillsborough Avenue and there he was...and he got me.
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A few years ago, I got that feeling driving through Knoxville, TN. I was probly going north of 80, but I don't recall exactly how fast I was going or even what the limit was when I got pulled over. I was sure I was getting a ticket because the LEO took all my licence/registration etc. back to his car. Although no sooner than he got to his car he brought all my stuff back, told me to slow down and took off like a bat out of hell taking the first exit. I'm guessing he got called on something a little more important than giving me a speeding ticket.