This funny joke was just sent to me by a blogger 🙂
A Florida senior citizen drove his brand new Corvette convertible out of thedealership. Taking off down the road, he floored it to 80 mph, enjoying the wind blowing through what little hair he had left.
“Amazing,” he thought as he flew down I-95, pushing the pedal even more.Looking in his rear view mirror, he saw the highway patrol behind him, bluelights flashing and siren blaring.
He floored it to 100 mph, then 110, then 120. Suddenly he thought, “What am I doing? I’m too old for this,” and pulled over to await the Trooper’s arrival.
Pulling in behind him, the Trooper walked up to the Corvette, looked at his watch and said, “Sir, my shift ends in 30 minutes. Today is Friday. If you can give me a reason for speeding that I’ve never heard before, I’ll let you go.”
The old gentleman paused. Then said, “Years ago, my wife ran off with a Florida State Trooper. I thought you were bringing her back.”
“Have a good day, Sir,” replied the Trooper
Funny indeed.
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Once it happened to me:
Back in the 80s beepers were less modern than today. I am a doctor, I had a beeper, which had two tones, no display of whom to call. I agreed with the hospital that they will use one tone for regular calls, the other for emergencies. One day I am heading home, I am about five minutes from home, when the emergency tone starts beeping. I step on the gas, do a very “dangerous” 40 in sideroad 25 mph zone. Blue light, cop, driver license registration please, blah…blah…blah…he is writing the ticket already. As a matter of principle, I never look for excuses, I never try to “get out of the ticket”, I just sit quietly and wait. The cop finally hands over the ticket and asks:
“Did you have any reason to speed?”
Kind of weird after the facts, the ticket is already in my hand, but trying to be polite, I answer:
“Well….once you asked…..I am a doctor and the pager went off, indicating a possible emergency”.
The cop kind of realizes that initiating this conversation may turn a bit emberrasing for him, so he “reasons”:
“Aha….but you see, the ambulance can speed, you can’t”.
I respond:
“I know that. The ambulance takes the patient, but did it ever cross your mind how the doctor gets there on time?”
The cop was genuinly surprised by this “revelation”. Almost with a display of guilt on his face he told me to show up in court and he will help me out. I showed up in court and indeed he did help me out, I was cleared and didn’t have to pay. This may not be as funny as the Corvette story, but this is actually a true story.
Gabor
We all should be so lucky to get off a ticket.
Susan jokes are much more funny when you do not know a joke is coming. I suggest next time just tell the story and everyone will laugh and know it is a joke.
I know this is besides the blog…but can anyone log on to ICC at the moment?
that joke is at least 20 years old.