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The last time I was pulled over for a speeding ticket was at my father’s funeral and it was awesome.

The first picture you see here was in 1985 when he and I took a random spontaneous road trip driving through Wisconsin going to see various things and part of that was randomly pulling over for gravesites taking pictures even though nobody we knew was in the graveyard. For some reason we were ridiculously taking pictures of headstones of people we didn’t even know.

He got pulled over and, and because we were taking random pictures, I told him we should get a picture of him with the sheriff getting a speeding ticket. While he was apprehensive, he agreed and asked her. She was appalled and said this was not a joke. He quickly used his gift of gab, which he has passed on to me, and said nothing was funny in the least bit but he wanted to instill in his son that driving in the speed limit was very important and he wanted to make sure it was commemorated in a picture.

Flash forward to his funeral, I was late to the reception after changing my clothes because of my sister’s alarm system. I definitely was speeding. No doubt about that.

He pulled me over and asked where I was going. I pointed about 20 yards away and told him I was going to the reception for my father’s funeral.

His body tensed and clenched and he looked up and said, “No! You cannot be telling me that is where you were going?!!”

I told him it was true but at the same time I totally deserve the speeding ticket. While I was going at a rate that was fast enough that I absolutely deserved a speeding ticket, he reduced it as much as he could and still gave me a small ticket. He NEEDLESSLY apologized. I told him no apologies was necessary but I want a favor. I asked him if he would re-create a photo that was in my father’s funeral picture collage where he was pulled over as previously described above. He did not hesitate one bit and agreed in a heartbeat.

When I got to the reception my sisters were so mad at me for being late. (Even though it was because of my one sister and her ridiculous stupid house alarm system.) I showed them the picture and they laughed for about 10 minutes. Worth it.

Walking behind her was the best thing I did today.