crown vic

Where I had worked over the summer had required me to make about a 45 minute commute to and from work every day. The commute was on a boring 2 lane highway. The traffic flow traveled at anywhere between 45 and 70 mph and the highway opens up for passing for around a half mile stretch once on the whole trip and drops back to 2 lanes the rest of the way. (m43 for those of you who might be familiar with the western region of michigan)

Anyway, past the details of what the road looked like, I was on my way home from work one day on this 2 lane highway when I come up behind some slower traffic which consisted of a minivan and a ford crown vic. Both the van and the crown vic were going slow and were spaced a couple of car lengths apart so I didn't really want to pass the minivan and squeeze in between them and the crown vic because I would then just have to pass again to get anywhere so I just figured I would wait until the passing lane came up in a couple of miles.

The passing lane starts right before a stop light and the minivan and the crown vic stay in the left hand lane so I go into the right hand lane as we all pull up to the red light. I look over at the driver in the crown vic. Its a very old man behind the wheel. His liver spots and old man driving hat made me smile to myself since I was going to get ahead of these bozo's who were driving slow so I could get home and relax and seeing how the slow group of cars is being led by this old man, getting ahead shouldn't be a difficult thing to do. So the light turns green and I take off faster than normal, not fast enough for people to say, "Oh look at that stupid kid trying to act like a hot shot." but faster than most people normally take off, mainly for insurance. Anyway, the old man, driving hat and all, just blows by me like he is on a mission from god!

I was too surprised to even try to play catch up to save the dying shred of my ego. I just chuckled in disbelief and took my place in line behind him as he promptly slowed down to 50 after the passing lane ended and continued to drive excentrically until pulling into a golf course.