Music to get speeding tickets by...

[lksteve]

one of the advantages to be a department director is that i may use a personal vehicle to drive to and from job sites...i have a survey project near Susanville CA and since there is a shortage of company trucks, i decided to take mine...of course, my POV has a CD player and since the drive is 2 hours, one way, i brought along a couple of CDs...anyway, LaGrange by ZZ Top is playing, i'm flying down the road at 0630 (that's 6:30 AM, FS) and fly by a rest area with several cars parked there...i was probably doing about 85 in a 65....maybe more, maybe less...probably more...anyway, it seems the cars parked at the rest area was a coffee clatch of the CHP...i noticed red and blue lights flashing in the rear view mirror...i pulled over, the cop walked up, asked for license, registration, insurance paperwork...and of course, asked me what the hurry was...i told him no hurry, was just listening to ZZ Top and keeping tempo with the tunes...he laughed, asked me which song, i turned it up and we spent a few minutes exchanging pleasantries...he ran my license, came back and we shot the bull another five or ten minutes about songs not to listen to while driving by four state troopers at a rest area....the top five we came up with (reflecting our age, i'm sure)

1. LaGrange
2. Street Fighting Man
3. Run through the Jungle
4. Radar Love (his pick, not mine...)
5. Gimme Shelter...

he told me to slow it down...i told him i was glad i didn't have a CD player on my bike...

BTW, no ticket, not much of a warning...and some advise as to when the CHP looks for speeders along that stretch of road (it seems the school busses start rolling around 7 AM)