One day a state trooper while patrolling the roads spied a vehicle on a country road at twenty-two miles an hour. It looked quite suspicious to him so he pulled the driver over. When the state trooper was approaching the car, he noticed that the passengers inside looked wide-eyed and really pale.

As he stood next to the car the elderly driver started talking, “Officer, I don’t understand why you pulled me over, I was doing exactly the speed limit! So I don’t understand what seems to be the problem?”

‘Sir”, the officer replied, “indeed you weren’t speeding, but driving much slower than the speed limit can also be very dangerous.” “I’m sorry officer but I beg to differ, I was doing exactly the speed limit as stated on the sign: twenty-two miles an hour!” the old man said.

The trooper was a bit surprised but started explaining that the “22” on the sign was the route number and not the speed limit. A bit embarrassed, the old man grinned a bit and thanked the state trooper for pointing out his mistake.

But before the state trooper was about to let the old man go he said; “But before I let you go, sir, I really have to ask whether everyone in this car is feeling all right?” “Because your Passengers seem awfully pale and shaken.”
“Oh, they’ll be all right in a minute,” the old man said.

“We just got off Route 119“