Red Light. Right Lane.
BSAR facing east @ Mt. Pleasant.
Lane ends fifty meters after intersetion
Two cops sit end on end next to me
Left Lane. Long Light.
Waiting... watching the other lights. Green.
Decision: beat them to the front.
Beat them to the left!
Pedestrian warning lights flash
Mt. Pleasant is about to turn red
Yellow first. Clutch disengaged
Right hand in first. Left on wheel
Right foot rests on the throttle
Red
'one onethousand, two'
GREEN
gas-engage-clutch-floor-to-fourthousand
Shift!
floor-to-fourthousand
Shift! (signal left lane change)
floor-to-threethousand
(check mirror-they're way back)
move to left lane as fifty meters runs out
seventy kmph exactly
Shift to fourth gear.
cruise...
They follow closely till
the right lane reappears @ Erie ave
I move over, they pass.
One hits the curb in the middle
@ the bends before Colbourne
I chuckle and return
unacquitted
to home base.
