"We'll Call Him 'Bait'"

[michelle1963]

My dad liked a car with a lot of power. His last one was this Dodge Magnum with the 5.6 liter hemi. Stomp on the accelerator, and you’d be thrown back in your seat. Once, when driving the car myself, anxious to get around the slow car in front of me, annoyed with the car crowding my left flank who would never pass, I tromped the gas, moved into the

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[suzanne1945]

Love this one! Where'd you get the pic of Bill in the Magnum? Glad to know his theory was correct. Of course, his ideas often were.

[michelle1963]

The picture was one that Grandpa took and emailed to me.

[ehowton]

You can tell by his Old Man Hat :)

[ehowton]

Also - I'm remembering to eat.

[ehowton]

Given my expertise with Naval Order of Battle during my military years, I began calling them "minesweepers."

After this post I learned that these days drug runners will send a speeding car ahead of the car with the contraband so that cops will ticket the speeding car, allowing the car close behind the speeding car to get through unaffected.

I wonder if that's what was going on, pulling over the "drug" car instead of the speeding car, or if he just wanted to ticket us both.

*shrug*

[michelle1963]

Minesweepers! I love it. :D