About those tax dollars…

Yesterday.  Early morning.  Traffic, medium.  There were three of us cars, one behind the other, on the 101 cutoff over to the river road. After we turned east at the stop sign, we all picked up speed as we headed for Chinook, but no one seemed inclined to pass.  We were the third in line.

Suddenly, a car was passing us.  One of those ‘out of the blue’ streaks.  We were on a slight incline.  Visibility for oncoming traffic: none.  He passed us before Nyel even got the “as*****!” word out of his mouth.  He passed the car in front of us and went right on past the next car. It was a few seconds before I thought to breathe.

“Where’s a cop when you need one?” we said in unison.  We could see well ahead of us by now.  The speeding car was way ahead of all of us.  I wondered if he would slow down through Chinook or… And then there were flashing lights behind us, coming fast.  The sheriff’s car whooshed by us and was soon out of sight.  Did he hear the silent cheers from all of us as he passed?

As we approached the outskirts of Chinook, there they were!  Cop car and as*****’s car.  Nyel and I gave the deputy a thumbs up as we passed, though the temptation was to flip another finger at the perp.  Maybe one of the people ahead of us took care of that.  No matter.  We were pleased to see our tax dollars at work.  And, I realized, as the next clot of oncoming traffic came toward us… if it hadn’t been for the work on the bridge and the intermittent lulls in traffic, we could have be relating a whole different story today!

One Response to “About those tax dollars…”

  1. True about the other potential. These fools always take an innocent with them.

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