I just need to rant for a minute.  I understand that everyone is constantly in a rush.  Needing to get from here to there and five minutes ago.  Yes.  I get it.  But lets get real people.  New Circle Road (also known as Circle 4 and some other name that a guy was asking for directions to and I had NO idea until he said “something circle”) here in Lexington has a speed limit of 55 mph.  I have had only two tickets in my entire life and one came from New Circle.  I am rarely in a big enough hurry to fly 75 around the circle.  I consciously try to stay right AT or around 55 because it is heavily patrolled.  I will push my limits at 60 every now and then but that is about it.  Well I happened to get in front of a line of people this lovely Sunday afternoon who seemed to think that 5 mph over the limit was just not good enough.  So I sped up to 10 mph over… then 15mph over just to see when they would back off my bumper.  Finally I said “screw it” and got into the other lane.

My PSA to Lexingtonians is this…. ITS NEW CIRCLE, NOT THE AUTOBAHN!!!!!!! There truly is NO need to go 85 around New circle just because.  If you were going to a FIRE you would be in a big red truck and seeing as how you are NOT I will NOT feel pressured to get over or speed up any longer.  I will stay my course and you should conside yourself lucky.  I may just be saving you a ticket!

And while we are at it, let’s talk about something else that irks me.  The ramps onto and off of Nicholasville Road.  They back up.  Everyone knows this.  If you are DRIVING and you have no reason to be turning onto Nicholasville Road, WHY oh WHY are you in that lane?  Seriously you are a causing a whole traffice wave backup because you are too lazy to switch lanes and get out of the flow of traffic onto the Circle.  You MUST be stupid.  Why you want to be tapping your brakes on a 55 mph road I will never know.

So… rant over.  that is my pet peeve of the day.

As a side note. This is the story of my AWFUL ticket experience that traumatized me into going the speed limit and not ONE mph over for more than three years! :  I might have been two months postpartum.  We had been to eat and something was making me SICK.  You know what I am talking about.  The “screaming heebie jeebies” as my cousing Burt calls it.  Ky was teeny and on her heart monitor and crying so I was “speeding” home.  When the officer pulled me over he was RUDE.  I explained I was sick and that I needed to get to a restroom FAST.  He said that I would have to wait and “can you please make the kid stop crying?”  He asked for my license which was in the diaper bag in the back seat.  I told him this and as I turned to get my bag he started yelling at me to keep my hands where he could see them!  Seriously dude did you think I was going to whip an oozie out of that diaper bag.  Finally HE got in my back seat and got out my wallet all the while my hands are gripped firmly (in view) on the steering wheel.  He proceeds to ask me again if I can calm Ky down at which time I unloaded on him “sure… as soon as she gets her open heart surgery, no longer needs a feeding tube, isn’t throwing up everything she eats, gets a new butthole, has her spinal cord surgery… I am sure she will “calm down” then”.  I asked him if he would find her passy and put it back in so that she didn’t go into cardiac arrest while he was filling out his paperwork to which he replied “I can’t do that”… Grrrr…. He took his sweet time writing out my ticket charging me for 16 miles over ( I am relatively sure I was not going THAT fast) just so that I could end up in a higher “pay” category.  Then it hit me.  I was going to THROW up… When it hits me that is it.  I get the sweat and I have less than 1 minute before I loose it.  I told him this and he didn’t believe me.  Thought I was being dramatic.  That is until I flung open the door and puked on his feet.  I thought he was going to draw a gun on me for opening the door but I had to.  I had no choice.  I was NOT about to make my night even worse by puking in my own car!  So… to the grumpy police officer who pulled over a newly postpartum mother with her screaming heart baby and then proceeded to be rude… I think my puking serves to prove… you got what you deserved!  And that my friends is why I go only 55 mph on New Circle Road!

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