Can I see your license and registration please?

On our way to church yesterday morning, my husband got stopped by the military police who clocked him going 48kph in a 30kph zone. Let me take this moment to let you know that 48 kilometers per hour is roughly 30 miles per hour and 30kph is a little over 18 mph! That's right folks the speed limit on a large portion of post is 18 miles an hour!!! You can go faster than that in school zones in the states!!!! Andrew got clocked in an area just outside of a 50 kph (31mph) zone just after it transitions to the dreaded 30kph zone. The MP's had little sympathy for us as we were becoming later and later for church as they were writing up the ticket. At this point in time my husband's good Sunday attitude has now changed to angst and anxiety over the butt-chewing he was going to get from his chain of command for speeding on post (pretty much a cardinal sin any servicemember knows they should avoid, not to mention it gets printed in the weekly newspaper!) as well as the "negative points" that will now be on his USSEUR driver's license. I swallowed my own personal annoyance felt by this situation to play the role of the loving and sympathetic wife as we journeyed around the corner to finally arrive at the chapel, now 25 minutes late for service.

After church we had a few errands to run around post but before doing so, I suggested that we drive down the street Andrew got stopped on and see where the speed limit changes because I couldn't recall a 30kph speed limit sign. We ventured up and back down the street looking for that darn sign, but alas, NO SIGN! Andrew is now feeling slightly vendicated and is becoming less concerned about any potential problems the ticket would cause. As we are arriving in the PX parking lot, we see those same 2 MP's parked in the parking lot, they flag us down and come over to our window and ask for the ticket back because the speed limit sign had blown away. What a divine turn of events: ticketed and unticketed all in the same morning!