[SpeedFreak]

Hummm,

Just remembered a funny one...

I had been married a year; I was 21 years old and babysitting the last mansion on the north end of Palm Beach (Florida). Its owner was spending the summer in Jerusalem. The home was beyond fabulous, but that's another story.

Since we were newlyweds and young, we fought frequently. After one such argument, I tried to smooth things over with an ice-cream cake. On the way back from the store, I met her coming the other way; we both stopped and made up; only now my cake was melting. So I floored it...as much as you can in a 1978 Vega! The roads are winding and the speed limit was 30 MPH...I was doing over 70 MPH in a residential zone...NOT to smart! About a block away from the mansion, the cops caught me...I didn't even realize I was being chased! DUH! I quickly hopped out, admitting my guilt, and asking the cop to follow me...so I could at least get the cake in the freezer...THEN he could write the ticket. Unbelievably, he said OK! As I got out with the cake, he checked the contents...I put the cake in the freezer and returned outside. The cop said he'd been a cop for 20 something years, and this was the first "ice-cream defense" he'd ever had...

He let me off with a warning! I'm grateful to this day!

SF