The power of...

The power of the little locky thread thing...

This isn't a dig at anyone, just an observation!

So, what are you observing?

The power to silence.

The power of authority.

The powerlessness of us all.

There is good and bad to locked threads of course. Sometimes threads just go round and round with heated discussions that go nowhere in particular.

Sometimes you pray that someone in a position of authority will hurry up and lock a thread.

Sometimes it hurts badly when that happens.

Can't say too much incase my thread gets locked!

Did I ever tell you the story of being on the George Washington Parkway, a really nice road, no lights or anything, that runs along the Potomac River on the Virginia side (Washington, D.C. being on the other) and Arlington National Cemetery, the Pentagon, and Reagan National Airport, etc. are on it, Ladybird (President Lyndon Johnson's wife) Park and a few other pleasant sights; but it's a nice drive, especially on a weekend when there's not quite so much traffic as rush hour. But I worked in old town Alexandria, Virginia; George Washington slept there and I was born there but I drove from my Washington, D.C. apartment down Rock Creek Parkway past the Kennedy Center and over the river to the George Washington Parkway and on to Alexandria.

I'm driving along the parkway one morning, rush hour, and a Park Police car is in the other lane (it's just a 2-lane road) a little ahead of me. Well, as happens, all the cars slow and everyone does the speed limit behind this police car like good little children. I'm first in the other lane so I get it in my head to see if I can v-e-r-r-y slowly pass this police car. Theoretically, you can do 5 miles an hour (8 km) over the speed limit? So, I start going 1-2 miles an hour faster than the police car and v-e-r-r-y slowly edge past him. Takes me 4-5 minutes and that much road! As soon as I get past, his lights and siren come on and he pulls me over.

So, he takes my license and car registration, etc. and checks me out and writes me a "warning" ticket (nothing bad happens with a warning, it's exactly that) and we exchange pleasantries and he gives it to me and then asks, "why did you do it?" and I, being excessively honest reply, "To see if I could." He was so at that, said he would have given me a real ticket if he'd known, etc.

No sense of humor :-)

He he he, I liked your story, you little devil you!

i have actually done the same thing, and not gotten pulled over, course i changed lanes and got in front of him with my cruise control on and he passed me a minute later. guess he wasn't as confident about the speed he was maintaining as he thought he was. late night on the interstate is boring, wish i could still go out there and drive.

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thats funny. i never slow down when going past cops. i hate it when people think they have to go 10 mph under the speed limit. but no cop has pulled me over for that. whenever i get pulled over, i make it count. 80 in a 65 and 76 in a 55 haha. luckily the cop dropped it down to 70 in a 55 so i wouldnt get my license taken away. love those highway cops!