I almost got involved in a low speed police chase.
Stared out the afternoon heading over to my parent's house to install a new WiFi Router. They have 100mb service from the local cable company, but their house was still running onan old Netgear N300 router. It worked well enough when barely anything connected to it, but stil lnot great. As the years move on they are getting more and more connected it was showing it's age. Wifi was spotty when you moved much away from the house in the yard, and then the added two streaming TV devices int he last two months. An upgrade was neededd and I got a deal on an open box D-Link DIR-1750 last week. Easy setup and install mostly, enter the existing network ID and PW on the new router and everything connects. Getting it to talk to the internet about had me pulling my hair out. Realistically it was only about 5-10 minutes of trying to find a setting I missed. Finally I backed up and did the most basic troubleshooting step that I knew should have started with. Power cycled the cable modem and now it just works.
Took the Ranger over there today since I need to put miles on the Ranger and see if my EGR delete fixed the idle issues. (FWIW so far, so good) On the way home I got behind this dude doing 30 in a 55. Couldn't pass him the first couple of passing zones I got due to oncoming traffic. Finally got a clear space, punched it and passed. I think the truck hit 75 by the time I was past him. Got right back over into my lane and slowed down, but turns out that the oncoming car I saw in the distance was a cop. With my ticket luck (every one has been 20 over) I figured he might turn around and get me. Got about a mile down the road at the 4-way and my mirror was still clear. About a mile further down the road I see blue lights way off in my rear view. At first I figure he's too far off to be coming for me. Get to my next turn and he's through the 4-way still heading in my direction. It's weird, but I figure if he was coming after me he would have cought up to me already. Loose sight of him after my turn. Maybe about two miles later I'm pulling up to my next 4-way and here comes the blue lights around the last bend. There's a vehicle in front of him. as they approach the intersection he whips around the vehicle. I think ok, he's about to get me, I'll me pull off up here. Nope, he stop in front of what he was following and gets out.
Ok, that was weird. I carry on.
As I'm rounding the next bend I see the vehicle, I now know is a square body extended cab chevy 1500, whip around the police car and high tail it in my direction. I briefly considered blocking the road, the wisely decided to get my butt off the road and let them pass. Who knows what the idiot would have done to get past me and then I might be liable if he wrecks because of it. So he "blows" past me at all of about 50 miles an hour on this winding country road, cop following along as soon as he gets back into his vehicle. Then watching how poorly they (or atleast the truck driver) handled the curves. I continue on my way home half expecting to see the ass end of a pickup sticking out of the tree line. In retrospect it was comical to realize just what had been happening since I first saw the blue lights.
IMO, it's also funny to think that if I hadn't seen the blue light off in the distance I probably never would have seen any of it. It isn't uncommon for me to take that winding 45 mph road at 70 in my car. The current iteration of the Ranger has shown that it can do it at least as fast. If I'd been driving like I normally do I'd have been home before I got the chance to see anything, and been driving a hell of a lot faster than the "high speed" chase. Because of the lights I was being on my best behavior. and driving the speed limit or less. If they had been after me, I'd stop and take my punishment, but I didn't want to add to it.
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spent half an hour looking for my keys.. making me super late to work (they ended up being on the passengers floor).. drove an hour and a half south to a job we couldn't do because the salesman who sold it doesn't know jack about gutters.. had to listen to a coworker bitch and moan about the 3 hours of pointless travel.. and then bitch and moan like a petulant child when our boss gave us another job that was 4 miles down the street 
.. broke my phone.. then off to the dentist where I got told they don't accept my insurance any more.. AND I need a filling... gah.
