"Hello there, can I see your license please?"
"Sure."
"Your license plates are expired."
"...oh. Oh! I'm sorry!"
"Make sure you get that taken care of."
Boy did I feel like an asshole. In my defense however, I have a history of being stopped by shitty cops. On Sept. 11th, I was stopped by a cop, who had his lights on THE ENTIRE TIME, and then got yelled at for not moving when he parked behind me. See, I stopped by the curb to pick up a friend from the Metro, which this cop took to me parking in a no-parking-zone. However, my brakes weren't on, my engine was still running, and my friend was COMING DOWN THE STAIRS. He even watched as this gaddamn cop wrote me a ticket, and had enough time to take pictures.
It's not that I hate cops. It's that I have horrible luck and tend to run into the meanest asshole cops in existence. You'd think the fact that I have TWO cops in my family (both of them brothers-in-law) and my sister works for the DC police would give me good cop karma. But no, all they see is a bright yellow car being driven by a little brown girl and it's "lets yell at this chick and give her a hefty fine" day. All except yesterday's cop, whom I would have gladly hugged in exchange for not giving me the ticket I probably deserved for not having done my emissions testing on time. Twenty days late, in fact. Virginia is really really REALLY strict on these things, so I'm off to Midas to get Sunstreaker checked out. No worries, I already ate my breakfast.
Quick tip: Adding tabasco sauce to your scrambled eggs is AWESOME.
4 comments:
I got a $75 ticket the other day for not fully stopping at a stop sign, at 1 in the morning when freaking nobody is on the road. Except for the cop who happened to see it. I was pissed. Anywho, it's good you didn't get a ticket this time!
On what planet are you considered brown? I think my skin would be the same color as yours if I didn't live in the great white north, and I consider myself white. Though I remember one of my husband's Dad's friends thinking I was Filipino, which is funny, because I am quite the round-eye. I am mostly Irish, with some other N. European and a smidge of Am. Indian thrown in.
Oh, and I believe the cop/asshole ratio is a little higher than you might find in other professions. And I've been treated fairly well.
I'm pretty brown, it's just that in all of the pictures I have up here I'm wearing tons of pale make-up. >_>
I like your yellow car! Zoom! Zoom!
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