One of the most frustrating things that we may experience is getting pulled over by a policeman. It seems to happen without any warning, when we suddenly look behind us and see flashing lights in the rearview mirror. Immediately, we start to think about everything that we may have done wrong and we begin to put our story together so that we can get out of whatever ticket they want to write us. That is similar to what happened in this joke, when an old man was driving far too fast and got pulled over by a cop. It’s a good thing he was a quick thinker, because it works for him in a hilarious way.
A senior citizen drove his brand new BMW Z4 convertible out of the car saleroom. Taking off down the motorway, he floored it to 90 mph, enjoying the wind blowing through what little hair he had left.
‘Amazing!’ he thought as he flew down the M40, enjoying pushing the pedal to the metal even more. Looking in his rearview mirror, he saw a police car behind him, blue lights flashing and siren blaring.’ I can get away from him – no problem!’ thought the elderly gent as he floored it to 110 mph, then 120, then 130 mph.
Suddenly, he thought, ‘What on earth am I doing? I’m too old for this nonsense!’ So he pulled over to the side of the road and waited for the police car to catch up with him.
Pulling in behind him, the police officer walked up to the driver’s side of the BMW, looked at his watch and said, ‘Sir, my shift ends in 10 minutes. Today is Friday and I’m taking off for the weekend. If you can give me a reason why you were speeding that I’ve never heard before, I’ll let you go.’
The man looked very seriously at the policeman and replied, ‘Years ago, my wife ran off with a policeman. I thought you were bringing her back.’
‘Have a good day, Sir,’ said the policeman.
Source: Hrtwarming