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On Rte84 near me, if you aren't doing 73 (in a 65 zone) everyone is passing you,

hehehe...I'm not all that comfortable at 65 let alone faster. That's why I stay in the right lane. Hubby, on the other hand, likes to play "NASCAR driver" and scares the willies outta me.

.....even little old 'blue hairs' that can barely see over the steering wheel of their Thunderbirds.

I remember when they used to all drive BIG Buicks and had to look between the top of the steering wheel and the dash. LOL!

I've seen those Buicks!
What's really bad is when you're driving in a Humvee on the highway and having no idea how fast you're really going.
The speedometer in a humvee only goes to 55.

We were heading to the Kensico Dam Plaza near Valhalla New York (Irony?) and actually were keeping even with traffic.
While towing our howitzer for a static display.

A few minutes later, the driver looks left out his window and is surprised to see a state trooper car sitting there.
He asks us what he's supposed to do.
(We all shrugged an dtold him to find out what they want, they looked rather expectant.)
Mind you, the humvee is a rather loud vehicle to ride in, and you need to shout to be heard when it's at speed.
The trooper in teh passenger seat leans out his window and asks how we're doing.
Our driver says we're doing fine, and they're doing?
They say they couldn't be better, and ask us if we know how fast we're going.
Our driver looks at the speedometer, it's pegged, and he says "Not a clue!"
Trooper says, "You're doing 90, have a nice day!"
They sped up and left.
We slowed down and let traffic pass us.
We then had the sarge call 'home' and inform them that we could get one of those green beasts up to 90.
They didn't believe the sarge.
*chuckle*
We did make excellent time to our destination.