Blue Light Special

(This story comes from Captain Matt’s grand wedding adventure)

On the way up to the wedding, we decided to form a “caravan” (not sure if two cars makes a caravan” to make the trip a little easier. Mom and Dad were leading and I (along with Kari, Artie, and Robert) were following in my car. Everything was going along well and we even made our stop at Stripling’s.

Then we got to Macon. More specifically I-16. You see, there’s no real easy way to get to Athens. So you have to get off I-75 onto I-16, take I-16 for about mile, and then you get off 16 and take Georgia back roads. As we were getting to our exit on I-16 (in 5 o’clock traffic), there was a Macon cop sitting in the median split between the exit offramp and the interstate.

This particular offramp was the kind where you drove from the top of the incline down to the traffic light. As we started to pull of the interstate, traffic was already starting to back up on the ramp. So I didn’t know the light at the bottom was red. Now it wasn’t a close stop or anything…but I did have to apply the brakes a little more that usual. No problem right?

Wrong.

Apparently while all this was going on, the cop slid in behind me and did the honking/siren thing they do. Honestly, I thought he was trying to get down the ramp for an emergency elsewhere. While I was looking to see if anyone else was moving, he did it again. I rolled down my window, leaned out, and looked back.

“Could you please move your car off the road”, said the cop over the loudspeaker.

I moved my car off the road.

“Could you please more your car a little further into the grass.”

Great. Now I’m pissing off the cop.

He pulled up behind me, got out, walked up to my window, and asked for my license and registration. At this point the light changed to green and traffic started moving. My parents pulled off into the grass as well. The cop looks at me and says, “Are you following the sliver truck?”

“Yes, I’m following my parents. We’re on our way to a wedding and I didn’t want to get lost.” That sounded good right?

Well he walked back to his car, stayed there for a few minutes, and returned with a lovely little piece of paper for me to sign. Yep. A ticket…for following too closely. To be more specific, as stated at the bottom of the ticket, “following to close to a sliver truck”.

Kari took a close look at the ticket and figured out he had written a ticket just 15 minutes earlier.

We’re sure it was a combination of the end of the month, most colleges were letting out for summer, there were four “college aged” people in the car, and we had out of state plates.

In other words, an easy target and an easy $70 for the City of Macon.

Gah!

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