Do you drive above the speed limit?

I have driven above the limit when I felt I could get away with it. It got to a point when I had to stop driving in the left lane, which is where I tended to drive faster. One time when I had my mother in the car she asked "Do you have to pass everybody?!"I tried to be careful about it though. I remember once I was on the parkway and a young fella in a red car sped past me. I knew a speed trap was coming up, so I was just cruising. Sure enough, the state trooper stopped him.

I got pulled over only once for speeding and the cop was not trying to hear my reasoning. I had a beeper then and my son had beeped me 911. I knew he was home with his young children so I couldn't imagine what could be wrong. I put the peddle to the meddle just as I exited the parkway. I saw the cop and tried to slow down but he also saw me and I wound up getting a ticket. That turned out to be a nuisance (court date, higher insurance), so I never did it again. And I haven't really driven since 2005.
 

I like to drive fairly fast....WHEN the traffic and weather conditions allow. When we got our Impala LTZ, I was convinced that it was built to handle some speed. One day, middle of the afternoon, virtually no traffic, and a good long straight road....I let it rip, to see if it reached the 140MPH on the speedometer. It quickly ran up to about 125 MPH, then the engine cut out, until it dropped back to about 80. It turns out that Chevy has a "speed limiter" built into the computer.
 
I used to, only on the expressway. The speed limit is 70 mph now, so I can live with that.

On surface streets, I am very careful to obey the speed limit. I don't want to hit anybody - not people, not animals. I have a whole speech that goes along with that. My daughter is tired of hearing it, so she is very careful to follow the speed limit. At least when I'm in the car. Not that she was Speedy Gonzales to begin with.

The other day, a half-grown fawn was in the middle of our street. She stopped and turned off her headlights so it would be able to continue on its way. Deer, apparently, are mesmerized by headlights. So now she has a real-life example of why animals could be in street.

I used to hate driving my son to work. It was only 7 miles away, all of it on winding country roads. The number of wild animals that leaped out in front of my car was astonishing to me. That was a nerve-wracking drive, with visions of injured or dead animals dancing in my head. I was so glad when he bought a car and drove himself. I was also glad I never hit any of them.

Once there was a chicken in the middle of the road. I stopped, of course. And waited and waited for that chicken to get off the road. Finally, it did. I guess chickens don't scare easily, since this chicken took its sweet time deciding whether to cross the road.
 

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