Happy Rainy Sunday

[Cleo]

I should have stayed home…

Driving around buying crap, like gas cans and a floor fan, and I end up in a traffic jam from hell on Federal Hwy less then a mile from my house.

Turns out the traffic jam is because the cops have turned the lights red in both directions so that they can walk past all the cars looking in the windows, checking plates, if we are wearing seat belts and whatever else.

Cop comes knocking on my window, asks for my license, registration, and proof of insurance and tells me to pull into the parking lot. I'm thinking he wants to know why my passenger seat is full of five gallon gas cans or something, they were empty as I had just bought them.

Turns out I had forgotten to renew my license plate. Wow you would have thought that I had just robbed a bank or something. He went on how it is a criminal offense since it was over 6 months overdue and went on how he could arrest me and impound my car and how lucky I am that he is going to be nice to me and only write me a ticket. Going over to the tag place first thing in the morning to take care of my plate since the website seems to be broken and now I'm going to have to sit in court for hours to show the judge that I have renewed my plate.

I was as nice, polite, and respectful as I could be knowing from past experience that it is the best thing to do. I signed the ticket and he looked at my signature and then starts going on that he didn't think I could sign my name like that two times in a row. I guess he didn't like the way I scribble my signature. So I pointed out that it was the same way that was on my drivers license at which time he went through the whole speech how it is a criminal offense since it is over six months and he could tow my car, blah, blah…