Pluggers by Rick McKee for October 30, 2024

And don’t forget to turn down the radio the closer you get to your destination so you can see better!

I hear the same is true of pot smokers.

If I go over the limit by 3 miles per hour my car beeps. Gets real loud on the freeway…..

I knew I was getting old when I braked for a speed trap, only to discover I was already under the speed limit.

Depends on the weather conditions ;-)

The ‘old timers’ out where I lived often drove no faster than ten miles UNDER the speed limit. It was a great annoyance to others — especially to those who wanted to drive ten miles OVER the speed limit. Dangerous passing on hills happened often when drivers got impatient.

I usually go under the speed limit on the way to work, it gives me more time to react to the deer, turkeys, opossums, or whatever else decides to run across the road in front of me

My route into town starts on a 25 mph dirt road [so poorly graded that no one goes over 20]. Then I turn onto a county road where the speed limit is 50 mph for 3 miles, then 35 mph for 1/2 mile. The next turn is onto a county road that is 45 mph until it winds around a lake where it is 30 mph. The speed limit goes back to 45 and then down to 35 for the turnabout into town. That road is 45 mph for 1/2 mile then drops to 35 for the next half mile to a four-way stop sign that marks the edge of town. Needless to say, traffic speed doesn’t change much during those 9 miles — pretty much 45-50 all the way to the four-way stop sign. What’s even worse is the number of cars that pass in no-passing zones. Don’t know why they are so intent on getting to the stop sign first.

Then when you get off the highway, 35 mph feels like you’re stopped.

I haven’t gotten there yet, but I’m getting so I really hate driving at night, and worse yet rainy nights. I’ve seen older folk on the highway I think should stop driving or stick to the back roads.

When I visit my daughters in Pennsylvania and Washington, they won’t let me drive anywhere with them. Say I drive like an old man – not fast enough.

A plugger invented the road sign “20 is Plenty.”

That guy was in front of me when I was driving to work today!

Driving in Florida is exactly like that! You have the regular adults whizzing by and the elderly thinking they are keeping up at 30 mph below the speed limit and swerving a little. I just give them a wide berth and hope they don’t try going any faster.

A former girl friend always drove 2 – 5 mph above the limit, saying that was the allowable margin of error for the speedometers in automobiles.

You should have to re-take the behind the wheel porton of the drivers test at 65 and every 5 (?) years after that. There are some very scary elderly people out there.

When I was in high school, I got to drive my Dad’s Volkswagen Beetle. It had a manual transmission, so I had all the fun of frequent gear shifts and roaring engine without going over the speed limit. :)

You’re lucky if the wife doesn’t have an auxiliary brake pedal installed on her side of the car ! ! !

Wow, Underdog has certainly aged. Polly on the other hand seems to have faired better.

my dad told me how in his youth, they would get so excited whenever they got up to… wait for it… 60 miles an hour!! WHOO WEE!!!