The Do-Over
Lotta calls and comments about shenaniganizing. People wondering where the hell I got that one? I didn’t make it up. I heard Roman Roy use it on the HBO show Succession and scribbled it down for future use. Great word.
So, people were calling me The Shenaniganizer and they started telling me their own whoppers. It’s good to have a few laughs in times like this. Anyways, I’ve got another good one.
Location: South Hadley. I run into a cop who I think handed out more speeding tickets in Massachusetts that year than anyone. He’s one tough hombre. I’m on my way to a meeting, going up a hill, and at the top are two cops with radar guns pointed right at me. They pull me over and tell me I was over the speed limit. “No way! If I didn’t step on the gas, I would never make it up the hill. I want a do over!”
The officers look at each other bewildered.
“You ever hear anything like that before?” “
“Never.”
“Is this guy nuts?”
So, the tough hombre cop says to me, “OK, hotshot, what are you thinking?”
I say, “I come back up the hill and you put the guns on me again. If I’m speeding, I pay the ticket. If I’m not, I go on my way.”
They both laugh and the tough hombre says, “Go ahead. Do it.”
Christ, I could’ve taken off in another direction and never come back up the hill. But back up the hill I go. I pull over to where the cops are standing to review the radar. Turns out I was speeding. I take the ticket and say, Have a nice day, boys.”
Crazy thing. The tough hombre cop stopped me about four times after that and every time he’d see who it was and yell out, “Hey, Do-Over, how ya doin’?” And he'd tell me to keep going. Have a nice day. That’s shenaniganizing, baby.
Keep your dukes up and your foot on the gas.