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The Streak Continues: 337<\/h3>\n

On Saturday, Greg Gulbransen and I enjoyed a challenging morning with strong winds and followed that up with a great afternoon. Being from Long Island Greg was astounded by the utter tameness of the birds. We have a Sunday morning session. I hope to be headed home not later than 10:00am so that I can make it to ILE without missing any NFL action. This blog post took me about 2 hours to prepare. It was published from St. Pete Beach at 3:56am. <\/p>\n

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Traffic Stop <\/h3>\n

On Saturday morning I met my now good friend Greg Gulbransen in the hotel lobby at 6:15am as we had previously arranged. I drove south on the main drag of St. Pete Beach and got into the left-most of the two left hand turn lanes at the light just before the Don Cesar Hotel. Just after I made my left turn the sirens and flashing lights of a sherriff’s cruiser caught my attention so I pulled to the right and stopped, figuring that the officer wanted someone in front of me. But in fact is was me who was being pulled over. I was amazed. “What did I do Greg?” I asked. He had as little a clue as I did. <\/p>\n

“Good morning ma’am, and yes, I have my license and registration,” I said. Then I added, “I have no clue what I did wrong.” She responded, “When you turned left, I was turning left right next to you. You swerved to the right and into my lane and almost hit me. Had I not been such a good Nascar driver you would have gotten me.” Not having seen her and not wanting to argue, I said, “I am sorry. That would not have been good.” She said, “I agree, especially since I am going off duty….” <\/p>\n

After two minutes she returned to my vehicle and said, Please be careful and do be on your way now.” “Thank you officer, I said, “Have a great day. <\/p>\n

“Wow,” I said to Greg, “She was nice and it’s great that I did not get a ticket.” “She probably just wanted to make sure that you were not drunk, “Greg said. “Yup,” I answered, “that makes sense.” <\/p>\n

I never caught her name but as she was quite attractive with short, dark hair, I began referring to her as “Officer Fox.” Smiling and happy as could be. As Greg had been in the passenger seat I asked him if he had seen her car next to us. Or if he had seen any vehicle in the lane to our right at any time. “Nope.” Neither had I….<\/p>\n

Seven point nine miles later I showed my annual pass to the young lady in the entrance booth at DeSoto and asked her some questions about park hours in view of the fact that Sunday would be the day that the clocks get moved back. In addition, we chatted a bit. <\/p>\n

In my rearview mirror I noted that another car had pulled in behind me so I said goodbye to the booth attendant just as I noticed that it was what I thought was another police car. <\/p>\n

Not wanting to get a speeding ticket I pulled ahead slowly to the stop sign by the big flagpole. We were in the right lane headed for North Beach. The patrol car pulled up along side us and I glanced to my left. <\/p>\n

It was Officer Fox. She turned left towards the East Beach where she would surely not encounter another soul….<\/p>\n

What is your take on the situation? How would you have felt? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This image was created by Greg with the hand held Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 300mm f\/2.8G ED VR II lens<\/a> and the Nikon D4S DSLR camera body<\/a>. ISO 1000: 1\/1000 sec. at f\/6.3.<\/p>\n

Image courtesy of and copyright 2014 Greg Gulbransen.<\/p>\n