{"id":601,"date":"2008-09-04T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T06:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2008-09-04T00:01:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T06:01:26","slug":"just-desserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/04\/just-desserts\/just-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Desserts…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We drove to Rapid City — last weekend… what a long. boring. drive. But there was one bit of excitement on the way back that really made the trip.<\/p>\n

I was driving along I-90 near Murdo, SD, with the cruise control set at about 77-78 mph. I came up behind a tractor trailer rig — pulling two full-size trailers — checked my mirrors, and moved to the left lane to pass. About half way past the truck, I looked in my mirror and saw some bozo approaching at high speed, probably over 100 mph. He slowed in time, thankfully, but sat within a few feet of my bumper — way too close for comfort. I taped the brake pedal a couple of times trying to get him to back off, but he stayed right there. When I finally got past the truck, he floored it, giving me a dirty look and the bird as he passed. What a jerk.<\/p>\n

As the guy passed me I breathed a silent prayer, asking that his request be granted — driving that fast on Labor Day weekend, he was just asking to be caught. Sure enough, a short time later we saw a patrol car with lights flashing at the side of the road, with the same Iowa-plated VW pulled over in front of it. <\/p>\n

That was so terribly gratifying. Nobody on the road that day deserved a ticket more than that guy, and he got it. I shouldn’t have, but I tapped the horn a couple of times as we passed. That’s probably considered gloating, but it’d take a bigger man than me to resist something that tempting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We drove to Rapid City — last weekend… what a long. boring. drive. But there was one bit of excitement on the way back that really made the trip. I was driving along I-90 near Murdo, SD, with the cruise control set at about 77-78 mph. I came up behind a tractor trailer rig — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-just-stuff"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}