"Luck of the Irish"

Wednesday evening after a long day at work I was tired and excited to leave because I had 2 consecutive days off. (YESSSS!) So I strapped myself in and sped off to get home quickly to my love and begin my mini vacation. Normally, I drive pretty cautiously and don't have much of a speeding problem, that day was diferent. Like I said I sped off, out of the mall parking lot and decided against stopping at 2 of the mall stop signs. (oops, my bad!) Then, approaching the feeder to get onto the highway there is another stop sign, (which i think is silly cause how do you expect to get up to 60 mph, quickly from a complete stop.) which I also, "totally paused" at. O, and in trying to get to that stop sign, I was probably speeding. So, of course I get pulled over. I should have, I was being an idiot. Not to mention that I actually saw the cop but figured he wasn't paying me any attention. I was wrong. So I get pulled over and he politely asks me if I knew why he pulled me over, (of course I know why) I just laughed and he joined in. He proceeded to tell me all about the running of stop signs, the speeding, and to add to the mix, he said, "And you have a breaklight out and you probably would have caught that had you had your car inspected. (it has been a year, exactly since I have been inspected. YIKERS!) I laughed again and I said yes, sir, you are probably right. Well, he then told me, "I won't write you a ticket for the stop signs and I won't write ya for speeding, cause I didn't actually have a radar on you. Just slow down and completely STOP at the stop signs." my response, "Yes sire, absolutely." He proceeded, "Now, I am going to write you a warning for your breaklight, since you didn't know BUT I certainly can't overlook the fact that you haven't had your car inspected in over a year, that one, you will receive a ticket." DANG!, but I couldn't complain, out of all 6 tickets I could have received, I was only getting 1. saweeeett! So he took my drivers liscence and registration back to his car. It took him a realllly long time, so of course, I begin to worry. What else could there have been? did he forget something, am I going to jail? You know, you start to worry and all things go rushing through your head. FINALLY, he comes back to my car and chuckling he says, " You know you sure do have the luck of the Irish because my electronic machine that write these tickets is not working for some reason and I am not about to sit here and handwrite all this information for 2 different citations." WHEW!!! (Thank goodness he was feeling lazy that day!) So he said slow down, stop at your stop signs and PLEASE get inspected. I replied with a polite and ellated Yes sir and thank you and we went our seperate ways. Oh man, I could not have been more lucky!

Now that you are all scared out of your britches knowing how I drive on occassion but just know that I don't always drive like I am on fire. :) I thank my lucky Irish poeple for bringing me such luck. Now, it's time to get my car inspected.......