Did you know?

This is something that struck me while driving last week. Did you know that the posted speed limit on the road is the maximum you can go? I know that when you go over the speed limit you get a ticket or fine but you can go under the speed limit by, say, 10kms and not get a ticket? Endangering lives by driving sub-light speed? There's something wrong with that, surely. In Montreal they have the right idea on some highways. They actually have a minimum speed limit sign.

I try to keep at the speed limit. I truly do. Never mind that I'm usually 10 or 20kms over it but the point is I try. I realized that if it was actually physically possible (without getting violently ill) for me to actually drive 80kms in a 100km speed limit, I wouldn't get a ticket. Because 100kms is the maximum. Gives you chills, doesn't it? When I give the finger under the dash (passive/aggressive, I know) to a mémère or pépère and blast by them as they crawl along at 80kms, I'm pissed. And I'm the one that gets the ticket? When the pokey-slow is, in essence, making me speed just to get past them? When they're the pylons? No fair. Now excuse me... I'm off to drive to work.

kxx