Half Past Awesome The police officers in question could see I was the designated smart-nice person of the group, so they came up good-naturedly and gave me the low-down. It helped that I offered them a soda first, as a gesture of our benevolence as firefighters. One of them approached us and said “don’t underestimate those damn Priuses. We’ve been chasing her all around the Northside for a while now. Those little things can move!†I’ve edited that statement, but you get the gist. Apparently, the driver was hopped up from huffing paint and went on a little Tour de North Springfield at high speeds. I’m just glad no one got hurt as a result of her impersonation of an urban TrashCar racer, but it got me to thinking. Here was this fugitive of the law, hauling nice person and slinging rubber around Northtown, eluding the long arm of the law while piloting a Toyota Prius,
Well, I've acquired the nickname "Speedy Gonzales", after receiving a citation in the mail for 68 in a 50 Km/hr zone (which I can't see being correct, but how do you argue with photo-radar a month afterwards. And anyway, paying a $113 road tax with no other consequences is much better than trying to fight it). Then yesterday, luckily unobserved, I caught myself forgetting to cancel cruise and going 105 in an 80. AND Pearl usually leaves the traffic behind if first in line at a red light (when it turns green of course). Not speeding, just reaching the limit much faster than the other traffic. There is nothing "slow" about a Prius. A Prius driver, perhaps, but not the car. Notwithstanding the nonsense put out by the car mags. Yup, it's not a race car. What do they think they are testing?
