tiny bit of highway drama
...no, it wasn't these guys, but...
I had a bit of highway drama yesterday driving back from Stanford to SF--I was coasting along nearing my exit when I see out of the corner of my eye a cop car tailing me for quite a while--he seems to be in a holding pattern with me and i just KNOW he's gonna pull me over for....my expired license plates. gosh darnit, i've just been so busy lately and now they're three months overdue. not only that but I have to drive EVERYWHERE so i knew that it was going to catch up with me sometime sooner or later. Just as I knew he would he turns on his lights and makes the "woot! woot!" sound and says through the little loudspeaker "take the next exit". argh! it was funny because right at the exit were hordes of people waiting for a bus and off I come followed by a flashing cop car giving me instructions on where to stop, and I felt like I should have at least done something more sexily illegal than just have expired plates. Like maybe speeding or something. Anyhow, it was all rather uninteresting, the actual ordeal, except for the fact that he gave me a summons to show up at TRAFFIC COURT in South San Francisco at like 8:30 in the morning a month from now, where they will figure out if they will ticket me or not for it. I would really have much rather just paid an actual ticket or have gotten a "fix-it" one instead of disturb my early morning reveries. damn!
Another funny part was my only excuse for him as to why I haven't registered was a meek "uh, I've been really busy(?)"--with almost a question mark at the end, too. I feel like I should have talked more drama or something, had a better excuse. But alas, I'm just plainly forgetful. Oh well.
6 Comments:
oh no! well, don't feel lazy... my hubby had his renewal stickers for about a year and never put them on the plate:(
i think it's such a waste of everyone's time, including the city's to make people go to court over small things like that. what ever happened to just paying a ticket?
OMG, that is something I would do, if I didn't have my hubbie always harping on me to take care of little issues like that.
Once when I was in college a cop pulled me over and for the life of me I couldn't figure out what I did wrong! He told me my tags were expired, I proceeded to adamantly explain how impossible that was because I renewed them when I transferred the title a few months back. He asked for my registration and what was neatly attached to it? My stickers. I felt like such an idiot, and then he asked me to get out of the car and escorted me to the back of my truck and supervised me as I put on the stickers.
that's really funny. I hadn't been pulled over in like ten years and I got pulled over twice last week! yes, twice.
once for the cop thinking I had expired tags when I didn't and once for speeding. Of course I didn't get a ticket for the first cops mistake, AND kind Officer Gore (I wish it would have been Poncharello) let me off with a warning, too! I couldn't believe it. All this bragging is sure to get me a ticket in the next 24 hours...
wish me luck.
well, the bad cop attitude worked--today I got my car smogged AND went to AAA and got my new registration tags. All in one day! How complete and final! I guess sometimes using the "woot woot" sound works, eh?
;p
let this be a lesson to all of you, you nasty nasty negligent no-tags driving ladies! ha! thanks for all your stories, they really made me smile :)
Like Kara, I have my plate stickers attached to my registration in my glovebox. I'm going out to my car right now and put them on!
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