Our First Run In With the RCMP

And we hope our last!!!! Last Thursday night (November 10) we were heading home from the squash club in our 1990 Jeep Wrangler. To back up a little bit, we took the Wrangler (affectionately called hem or roid, depending on the day) into the garage to have it looked at because it was stalling when we slowed down or stopped at stop signs. The way the mechanic fixed the problem was to turn up the idle, so it was idling at 2000 - 2500 RPM's, especially when the jeep was first started. So, last Thursday night we had just started the jeep after a great squash game and workout and we were heading home. Then all of a sudden, there were the red spinning lights in our rearview mirror and low and behold, we were being pulled over! So, the very first thing the Police Officer asked was, do you know why I pulled you over?? And in all honestly I told him that I had no idea (I know, sometimes that is a ploy to divert one's own guilt, however in this case I really had no idea why I was being pulled over.) He told me that I was going 52 KM per hour in a 30 KM per hour zone. The funny thing was that the jeep was in third gear, and I didn't even have my foot on the gas. In fact, I think what happened was it sped up when I my foot accidently slipped off the break. There was one other factor involed, which was a 70km tail wind. As a side note on Friday night winds hit 100 Km per hour. Our whole house shook, like one of those beds in a cheap hotel room after a quarter is inserted. Anyway, the officer, who turned out to be a fine young man (mainly because he didn't give me a ticket) asked for my drivers license and our insurance and ownership. My drivers license hasn't been switched yet from an Ontario to a Nunavut license.
Now that's a whole story in itself. The readers digest version is that to get a Nunavut drivers license, I need a medical because I have a D/M license instead of just a G license. Anyway, I have been calling and trying to get an appointment to get the medical. Aparently there is currently a shortage of doctors in Iqaluit, so non emergency appointments have been put on hold.
In this case, I think it worked in our favour. When the officer noted that I had an Ontario drivers license and the ownership had been switched within the last 2 weeks, he just politely said that the speed limit in this area of town is 30 KM per hour. I assured him that I appreciated the information and would do my very best to keep the speed of the vehicle in line.

I'm happy to say that the end result was no ticket, although I'm sure Jacquie is convinced that it won't be too long before my foot will slip off the break again and I'll be caught! :-)