OK, I must give a shout out to the universe for watching over me.<\/p>\n
Here’s the scenario…<\/p>\n
Last night, I was headed to a screening not too far from the crib. As I was making my usual rounds to find a sexy parking spot, I eyed one across the street. For the record, I’m all about free street parking, after 6pm, so I thought I was in luck.<\/p>\n
I’ll admit that I’m not 100% opposed to quick, illegal maneuvers as long you’re clear of pedestrians and other drivers. So, after taking a look around, I saw that I was good. Or so I thought.<\/p>\n
As soon as I maneuvered my steering wheel to make my across-the-double line U-Turn (which actually turned into a cumbersome, 3-point situation), I saw the cop car. It was too late to turn back. For a second I thought I was safe because the cop behind the wheel didn’t see me, but then I saw his partner turn his head, right in my direction.<\/p>\n
Damn.<\/p>\n
Damn.<\/p>\n
Damn<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n Yes, I was wrong – very wrong – and quite pissed at myself. Before I even heard the words, “You know that was an illegal U-Turn you made,” I started pulling out my license, registration and insurance info, meanwhile calculating how much damage I’d done to the checking account – moving violation, traffic school, points on my license, higher Geico payments? [sigh] I was still doing the math when the officer checked my VIN info and tags…then he said, “You know that’s $104 for making that turn in a business district, right? Be more careful.” I think I said something to the effect of, “Really, officer? I’m so sorry about that,” but I was totally in a daze. Let’s just say that I didn’t realize he’d let me off the hook until I saw him<\/span> make an illegal U-Turn going in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n My record for moving violations is very slim, but I’ve never slid my way out of a ticket before. Never. Maybe the officer took pity on me because I looked like a deer in headlights or maybe he was feeling soft about the gas prices and the recession. Who knows? I’m not questioning his motives, but I definitely learned my lesson and promise to be on my best behavior.<\/p>\n Oh, and as an added bonus, I still got that parking spot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OK, I must give a shout out to the universe for watching over me. Here’s the scenario… Last night, I was headed to a screening not too far from the crib. As I was making my usual rounds to find a sexy parking spot, I eyed one across the street. For the record, I’m all… Read More »I knew I was (dead ass!) wrong, but –<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}