Gotcha, Speed Demon!

Previously, I posted about the interesting feature on my GPS that allows me to see the top speed attained while the unit is in use. Since then, I have left the unit plugged in while sitting inside the console box. I did this out of sheer laziness, since it was easier to do that than to unplug it and take it inside. I did not do it to spy on the various other drivers of my vehicle to see who thinks he or she is speed racer.

Well, this weekend I went down to Lakewood with Bug. Although we know the way, travelling on a summer Friday down the Garden State Parkway always has its adventures, so I like to have the ability to detour if necessary. As we hit a particularly slow stretch of the highway, we punched up the GPS. I was driving, so Bug was working the machine. I asked him, out of curiosity, what the top speed was now reading. It had been 87 on this particular unit ( not 110, that was the OTHER unit I have). He tells me it is now reading 94!!!!!

OK, now I KNOW that I haven't been on a plane, and I also know that I haven't gone that fast. That leads me to the usual suspects. Well, Bug immediately denied going that fast any time recently, which makes sense, since he has not done any major highway driving lately. Lovely has not used the unit or my car, for that matter, in quite some time. Stretch recently took the unit to return to school. However, he was driving some ancient station wagon that needed to be returned to Pennsylvania. Therefore we were under the impression that he probably couldn't coax that kind of speed out of a car like that, especially one he claimed shook at around 60.

Well, we were wrong. Upon admission, it appears the old wagons certainly hit that kind of speed.

Let's see how fast he can go on a bicycle now.