Danica Patrick Feels the Need for Speed!

As I have previously mentioned, my husband is the racecar fanatic at our house and I am a fanatic about MMA.

Despite our differences in sports preferences, we both are fans of women involved in any sport, even in typically male-dominated sports such as racing or fighting.

Both of us admire Danica Patrick's determination to hang in there with "the big boys" of her chosen sport and show that she is made of the same stuff that they are when it comes to fast cars.

Which brings me to the point that Patrick reminds me of my husband who once, like Danica, "had a need for speed."

Mel was a legend in his neighborhood and family for having hot cars and trying to break the sound breaker with his souped up and loud cars.

One elderly lady mentioned how he drove by her house so fast that he knocked over three of her trash cans because they blew over in his wake.

At that time we were dating and I doubted her veracity and believed that she was exaggerating. Now, after over 40 years of marriage and a four-year courtship, I am not so sure.

Mel has had more than his share of speeding tickets, even now in his more mellow and less hurried years.

So, apparently, has Danica.

Being that her latest one was obtained in Arizona (Scottsdale, more specifically), where my brother lives and we have visited, I am not surprised.

Trying to wend or way through the major cities in Arizona on the often confusing roads with too many lanes for my liking, one tends to try to out drive the other lanes of traffic so as not to miss exit or entrance ramps.

Thus I feel for Danica who was apprehended for going 54 mph in a 35 mph zone.

Doubtlessly, she was not driving on a superhighway at the time, but from living in that environment, I can still understand how it occurred.

In reading the article of her arrest I learned that Danica is originally from Roscoe, Illinois, which I hadn't realized previously.

My husband and I are from Peoria and I really do not know if Roscoe is close to a large are where driving like a maniac is customary.

I do know from reading the article that the 26-year-old Patrick was driving a 2007 Mercedes when she was pulled over on Dec. 9. Wow, that is a fine car!

An amusing side note is that Danica was also ticketed a year before in Scottsdale and ordered to attend "traffic school."

Why this amuses me is that I have a very strange sense of humor and can only imagine what the aggressive male drivers attending that same traffic school thought of their classmate who was the first woman to win an Indy-Car race.

My husband would have broken his neck to sit next to her and chat her up, had he been so fortunate.