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(Message started by: Lizzie2 on Jan 20^th, 2007, 2:38pm)

Title: They're Not All Bad...
Post by Lizzie2 on Jan 20^th, 2007, 2:38pm

The following is dedicated to Jimi!!

So today I was driving home from Narberth to my parents' house to meet up with my high school best friend, Cathy. I was running rather late because a fire alarm going off in the apartment building this morning set me back by about 20 minutes or so. I promised I'd get there by 12, though, so I told Cathy just before getting off the phone that, "I'll just drive faster..." Famous last words!!!

So I made it down the Schuylkill expressway (with Tony, my cat in the front seat next to me in his crate) and got onto 202 South to go to our house. I'm barrelling down at 85mph and for a second, I think, "hmmm...it'll take me a lot longer to get there if I get stopped by a cop...I had better slow it down a bit." So I dropped down to about 75mph. But time went by and I slowly drifted back up to 85mph before I even realized.... I was trying to make it there on time! My friend had said she only had a short time for lunch, and I hadn't seen her in a veryyyyyyy long time!!

So I'm cruising along when all the sudden I see a cop driving really fast up behind me - but no lights. I get into the right lane, and as I switch lanes, he flips the lights on. Shit. So I pull over. Now - I haven't gotten a ticket in a long time - the first and only other ticket I ever received was when I was coming home from Penn State to take the GRE's in Philadelphia a few years ago. It was an awful circumstance because earlier that week I'd had a kidney infection, gotten into trouble at work, had a car accident, and a plethora of other things happen - so at that time when the PA State Trooper pulled me over outside of Harrisburg, I didn't even say anything except, "Yes." and "I will." I knew that if I opened my mouth, I'd get myself in trouble.

But today - I wasn't sure what I'd do. As he is asking me for my license and registration, my hands are shaking so badly that I can hardly get control of them! He said I was going 85 in a 55....and was there an emergency? I said, "No officer...I was just running late to meet my friend." (Oh...I shoulda said my mom is dying and I'm trying to get home or some dumb story...but if you tell that story, then you're likely to get into deeper water!! So I told the honest truth...) He kept reassuring me that he wasn't going to yell at me. He saw my hands shake and said, "Are you just nervous? Are you okay?" I could barely nod that yes, I was just nervous. (I mean - who wouldn't be?? 85 in a 55 and I could lose my license...go to jail or something!! PA is strict too!!!) So again he reassures me that everything is going to be fine and he's not going to yell at me.

So he goes back to the trooper and I phone my best friend, who at this point is sitting in front of my parents' house in her car and I tell her what's going on. As soon as I get off the phone, I burst into tears. All that kept going through my head was, "This figures....What if I lose my license? I'm screwed.....I'm such an idiot..."

So after the required 5-10 minutes of him checking out my license to make sure I'm not wanted for arrest in 10 states (I assume this means that he also saw the connection to my handicapped permit...I don't know what else the system shows, but hopefully that I'm a nice sweet nurse who never does anything wrong...ha!), he comes back. Oh and I didn't mention that I didn't have the updated registration in the car either, but I had last year's!! Fortunately, he took that. He told me that he was giving me a ticket -----

But for only 5 mph above!!! So no points...no insurance hike.... Just a whopping $117 fine or something like that. But still...... I thanked him profusely, dried my teary eyes, and drove away...going no faster than 50-55mph.

Phew.....

So, they're not all bad!!!! (Thanks officer, if you ever read this, which I doubt!!!) So instead, I'm dedicating this post to Jimi!!!

Hugz and PF wishes and drive slowly folks!! (Yeah...right ya will!)

Carrie ;)

Title: Re: They're Not All Bad...
Post by andrewjb on Jan 20^th, 2007, 3:10pm

$117, not so bad when you think of the alternative. good luck. andrew

Title: Re: They're Not All Bad...
Post by LeLimey on Jan 20^th, 2007, 3:45pm

Last Easter when I was going to visit another ch'er (Hi Manda!) I got stopped doing 90 on the A1. All I got was a "show documents" (we aren't required to carry them here) at the local police station. I even conned the copper into writing 5'1 and a 1/2" for my height on the form. When I got to Amanda's she was in hysterics as she read the show documents note and the copper's name was PC Love.
No fine no nothing, I love our Policemen here ;;D

Title: Re: They're Not All Bad...
Post by Lizzie2 on Jan 20^th, 2007, 3:51pm

Helen dahhhhhling...

After I got the ticket, I thought of you. I recalled stories you had told me about how to handle the coppers if you got a ticket. I look up to ya - all I could do was cry and bat my long eyelashes. I'm wondering if he saw a pretty, young-ish girl in a skirt with blue eyes and a cat in the seat next to her, crying, with a disabled license connected to her name and driving a beat up car that's 13 years old now...and took pity on me! haha...

The fine doesn't help when one has accrued quite a bit of debt, BUT - the alternative is faaaaaar worse!! I still have to look and see what the copper's name was, but I don't really feel like looking at the ticket right now! I think I'm going to take a nap!

Hugz,
Carrie :)

Title: Re: They're Not All Bad...
Post by tanner on Jan 20^th, 2007, 8:08pm

Chauvinism plain and simple, I got pulled, cried, batted my eyelashes and called the trooper Hun.

Wrote me for $172.00 and 4 points my first ticket ever :(

No justice................ ;;D...tim

Title: Re: They're Not All Bad...
Post by cynjeep89 on Jan 20^th, 2007, 8:41pm

Tim,

Ya know why all that stuff didn't work for you? You don't have ovaries.

Title: Re: They're Not All Bad...
Post by Charlie on Jan 20^th, 2007, 9:27pm

My mother, who had a real lead foot, got only one ticket in her 60 years of dangerous driving and it was on Mothers Day for going 95 on the NYS Thruway. She never stopped screaming about it. Riding with my mother was not for the weak-hearted.

Cute stories kids.

Charlie

Title: Re: They're Not All Bad...
Post by Callico_Kid on Jan 20^th, 2007, 10:46pm

No they are not all bad. For the most part they are out there doing a really tough job trying to get us to drive safely. I have talked my way out of many more tickets than I have ever gotten, and with over 300,000 miles the last two years alone I have had the opportunity to interact with a few. (Just scale houses and inspections)

I have done some ridealongs with our local force, and when you watch what goes on from their prospective it changes your attitude a little.

PA officers have been very polite and professional to me. One of them could have nailed me with a MAJOR logbook violation last year, but realized it was an honest mistake and wrote me only a warning, which was the minimum he could do. He could have pulled my license for 30days and about a $300 fine.

Please slow down though! I drive through there fairly often, and would not like to see you as a hood ornament on my truck!

Safe drivin
jc

Title: Re: They're Not All Bad...
Post by Jimi on Jan 20^th, 2007, 11:00pm

Quote:

I'm wondering if he saw a pretty, young-ish girl in a skirt with blue eyes and a cat in the seat next to her, crying, with a disabled license connected to her name and driving a beat up car that's 13 years old now...and took pity on me! haha...

Yep that worked for me everytime. Wow, never had a post dedicated to me before. Glad he took pity on you. Oh, by the way, it is good that you didn't say your mom was dying lol.