I can remember when my grandmother got her first car. It was an old Ford Pinto and she didn’t learn to drive until she was in her 50s. She was terrified of driving, but she had to learn because she had a job and my grandfather had died, so she had to drive herself to work. To get there, she had to drive a couple of miles up her dirt road to the highway, then drive another 10 miles or so to her workplace. It was a straight shot on one lightly traveled highway. Along the route was the town nearest her, which had a population of less than 500 people. So driving through there was no problem. However, the town where she worked had a whopping 3,000 people. Luckily, her job was on the outskirts of the city because she said, “I’m not driving in that crazy traffic in town!” Ha. Enjoy the joke about old lady drivers below.
Sitting on the side of the highway waiting to catch speeding drivers, a State Police Officer sees a car puttering along at 22 MPH. He thinks to himself, this driver is just as dangerous as a speeder!” So he turns on his lights and pulls the driver over.
Approaching the car, he notices that there are five old ladies — two in the front seat and three in the back — wide-eyed and white as ghosts.
The driver, obviously confused, says to him, “Officer, I don’t understand, I was doing exactly the speed limit! What seems to be the problem?”
“Ma’am,” the officer replies, “you weren’t speeding, but you should know that driving slower than the speed limit can also be a danger to other drivers.”
“Slower than the speed limit? No sir, I was doing the speed limit exactly… Twenty-two miles an hour!” The old woman says a bit proudly.
The State Police officer, trying to contain a chuckle explains to her that 22″ was the route number, not the speed limit. A bit embarrassed, the woman grinned and thanked the officer for pointing out her error. But before I let you go, Ma’am, I have to ask… Is everyone in this car OK? These women seem awfully shaken and they haven’t muttered a single peep this whole time,” the officer asks.
“Oh, they’ll be all right in a minute officer. We just got off Route 119.”
