or so it seems.
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! I always go 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 with concern.
"Oh, they'll be all right in a minute officer. We just got off Route 119."
At a friend's buffet party last Sunday night, I asked a fellow retiree what she thinks about newspaper reports describing someone who is 60 as 'elderly' and she replied that it is correct. For someone older, he or she should be described as 'old' rather than 'elderly'. But I am still unsure of the term 'baby boomers' which she described as those whose children have grown up, and left the nest.
I have just checked Wikipedia and its explanation was more what I had in mind, excerpts :
"A baby boomer is a person who was born during the demographic Post-World War II baby boom. The term "baby boomer" is sometimes used in a cultural context, and sometimes used to describe someone who was born during the post-WWII baby boom..."
"In general, baby boomers are associated with a rejection or redefinition of traditional values;..."
"One of the unique features of Boomers was that they tended to think of themselves as a special generation, very different from those that had come before. In the 1960s, as the relatively large numbers of young people became teenagers and young adults, they, and those around them, created a very specific rhetoric around their cohort, and the change they were bringing about.[4] This rhetoric had an important impact in the self perceptions of the boomers, as well as their tendency to define the world in terms of generations, which was a relatively new phenomenon..."
About the slow driving, just a few days ago, we were following a police patrol car in Selama, Kedah, going at 30 kmph, over a stretch of winding roads with faded double lines. My wife reminded me just in case I decided to overtake it. But I knew and we were already near the entrance of the estate.
During every festive period, those in businesses which involve commercial vehicles have an added burden because of the extra police and JPJ checks to find faults and hope for private settlement. It has been so predictable but what can they do?
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