thrashingcows
Drowning deep in my sea of loathing...so I'm
Doc's little heart check almost loosing his Vin and the comment about getting pulled over with no decal reminded me of what happened last summer to myself and Patches.
I work Graveyards, 4pm to 4am and had finished work and was driving home, the yard is outside town a little ways so some long dark stretches before hitting town. Well this car came racing up on me and was following really close, but I had a "feeling" that I should do the speed limits...which I generally do since my license is my lively hood. So I'm putting along though areas where it's an easy pass but this car is still right on my butt.
So I eventually get into town and still the car is right behind me, and then I see it pass under a street light...yup it's a cop. Another 1/2 mile and he pops on the lights and I think, "what the heck I'm doing the speed limit and all my lights work etc." I pull over and he comes walking up and as I look out the window he says, "How you doing tonight Brian" used my first name which threw me off, told him I was fine, he then tells me my plate had expired 5 days ago! I was stunned and just sat there staring and he asked if things were OK...I told him I was fine just couldn't believe I forgot to renew my insurance.
He said he wasn't going to fine me for it, which is $600, but I couldn't drive the truck anywhere. I asked if I could move it over to a gas station that was just across the road, he said that was fine and asked if he could call me a taxi, I said no I would call the wife.
So I move to the parking lot of the gas station then wake the wife up, finally decide that it would not be worth it for her to drive 30 mi to pick me up, then 30 min home, then I would have to get ready for bed and maybe get an hour or two of sleep, then have to get up when she leaves for work in the morning to swing by an insurance place to renew the plates and then drop me off back at the truck. So I said I would just crash in the front seat of the truck and she could pick me up and we could sort things out before she went in to work.
Being a large man and even with a crewcab truck there is still not a lot of room to sleep in the truck, but I did manage to grab a few Zzzz's. But when I did wake up there was a cop sitting in the parking lot "just minding his own business" yeah right.
My guess is that they had checked on me a few times during my sleep because the majority of people would have just driven home after the cops had left. Not thinking that they know who you are and where you live and I'm sure they would visit you the next day and then plunk down the $600 fine and probably a few others for good measure.
So wife shows up, we go get some insurance and new decals and I finally get to go home about 6 hours after my shift ended...grab a couple more hours sleep then back to work.
I work Graveyards, 4pm to 4am and had finished work and was driving home, the yard is outside town a little ways so some long dark stretches before hitting town. Well this car came racing up on me and was following really close, but I had a "feeling" that I should do the speed limits...which I generally do since my license is my lively hood. So I'm putting along though areas where it's an easy pass but this car is still right on my butt.
So I eventually get into town and still the car is right behind me, and then I see it pass under a street light...yup it's a cop. Another 1/2 mile and he pops on the lights and I think, "what the heck I'm doing the speed limit and all my lights work etc." I pull over and he comes walking up and as I look out the window he says, "How you doing tonight Brian" used my first name which threw me off, told him I was fine, he then tells me my plate had expired 5 days ago! I was stunned and just sat there staring and he asked if things were OK...I told him I was fine just couldn't believe I forgot to renew my insurance.
He said he wasn't going to fine me for it, which is $600, but I couldn't drive the truck anywhere. I asked if I could move it over to a gas station that was just across the road, he said that was fine and asked if he could call me a taxi, I said no I would call the wife.
So I move to the parking lot of the gas station then wake the wife up, finally decide that it would not be worth it for her to drive 30 mi to pick me up, then 30 min home, then I would have to get ready for bed and maybe get an hour or two of sleep, then have to get up when she leaves for work in the morning to swing by an insurance place to renew the plates and then drop me off back at the truck. So I said I would just crash in the front seat of the truck and she could pick me up and we could sort things out before she went in to work.
Being a large man and even with a crewcab truck there is still not a lot of room to sleep in the truck, but I did manage to grab a few Zzzz's. But when I did wake up there was a cop sitting in the parking lot "just minding his own business" yeah right.
My guess is that they had checked on me a few times during my sleep because the majority of people would have just driven home after the cops had left. Not thinking that they know who you are and where you live and I'm sure they would visit you the next day and then plunk down the $600 fine and probably a few others for good measure.So wife shows up, we go get some insurance and new decals and I finally get to go home about 6 hours after my shift ended...grab a couple more hours sleep then back to work.
Rather than becoming a dickhead, he helped her figure out what happened. He gave her the tickets anyhow, of course, but let her be on her way from 40 miles away.