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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

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Julie

I'd say your punishment was the torture of wondering if you got off or not, combined with being carless while you get it inspected....

Woo-hoo! Love it when they waive the fee.

My dh got pulled over for speeding (7 miles over the limit) called me, and I appropriately gave him all the grace I'd want in a similar situation. Then he called back five minutes later: Warning! There's nothing like a reprieve. We drive so slowly now. :)

Julie

Scott

I'd say your punishment was the torture of wondering if you got off or not, combined with being carless while you get it inspected....

Yeah, right. Good try, though. :)

My dh got pulled over for speeding (7 miles over the limit) called me, and I appropriately gave him all the grace I'd want in a similar situation. Then he called back five minutes later: Warning! There's nothing like a reprieve.

The only time I've ever gotten a warning for speeding was on the New Jersey Turnpike, of all places. I find that incongruous.

It was my shortly after I began working in NYC. I flew down to Virginia Beach for the weekend, and Top Management drove up from Greensboro, where she was attending grad school. Sunday night I drove brother Jay's car home, and then the next weekend I was going to drive back down and then fly home. Got all that?

So it's about three o'clock in the morning and I'm on the turnpike and I'm just losin' it. I didn't yet discover the joy and magick of coffee, so I'm hopped up on Vivarin but it's a losing battle. I've got the radio cranked and the window down and trying oh so hard to stay awake but it's tough.

So I start screaming. Just yellin' my fool head off, as loud as I can, trying to wake up some. And I yell and I yell and I yell and I'm suddenly aware that there's a car next to me, keeping pace, two lanes over. And I look over and see two cops watching me.

They drop back and pull in behind me and hit their lights. And they come up and ask The Question:

"Sir, do you know why we pulled you over?"

Umm...because you think I'm insane?

No, it was for speeding. And they let me off with a warning. Maybe they didn't notice the screaming somehow. Or maybe they were just afraid of me. Because I think they probably should have patted me down. But I'm sure glad they didn't.

Woke me the hell up though, I can tell you that.

Julie

Scott, you need to write a book of blog entries. :) You have a gagillion incidents straight from your own bad-ass life that... well, I can't quite find the words, but they do keep me awake better than coffee. :)

Julie

Scott

Scott, you need to write a book of blog entries.

Unfortunately, I got it backwards--I'm writing a blog full of book entries. You get paid the other way 'round, which is why I'm doing it this way. Because, you know, I'm an idiot.

...tthey do keep me awake better than coffee.

Well, hell's bells! High praise indeed. I can tell you for a fact, however, that I don't smell nearly as good in the morning. Alas for my poor fambly. On the other hand, that's what they get for choosing so unwisely when they picked me.

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