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icarusMom grew sick of hearing my stepdad brag. He'd driven DC to Detroit in eight hours (normally a ten hour trip).
"No one'll beat that!"
There's only so much smugness you can take.
She borrowed his 300Z (same car he'd made his own record). It was a night drive so she knew traffic would be clear. The Z had a radar detector. (Another reason for his record.)
She didn't say she intended to shut him up. She just made sure she had witnesses at both ends -- the first witness being him.
In the car she'd packed food, shaving off all food stops. Night meant fewer times she had to slam the breaks at the bleeping radar detector. Cops like their sleep.
But it was the pit stops where she truly made up time. She had the money prepackaged (those days you had to go in and pay) and ran to the bathroom while the car filled.
Any pit crew will tell you: records are made in the pit.
Her record: DC to Detroit in seven and a half hours.
He refused to believe it, but had no choice.
He never knew she did it just to shut him up.
...I wonder how my 69-year-old mother would do in Top Gear's "Reasonably Priced Car"?
"No one'll beat that!"
There's only so much smugness you can take.
She borrowed his 300Z (same car he'd made his own record). It was a night drive so she knew traffic would be clear. The Z had a radar detector. (Another reason for his record.)
She didn't say she intended to shut him up. She just made sure she had witnesses at both ends -- the first witness being him.
In the car she'd packed food, shaving off all food stops. Night meant fewer times she had to slam the breaks at the bleeping radar detector. Cops like their sleep.
But it was the pit stops where she truly made up time. She had the money prepackaged (those days you had to go in and pay) and ran to the bathroom while the car filled.
Any pit crew will tell you: records are made in the pit.
Her record: DC to Detroit in seven and a half hours.
He refused to believe it, but had no choice.
He never knew she did it just to shut him up.
...I wonder how my 69-year-old mother would do in Top Gear's "Reasonably Priced Car"?
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