These thoughts brought back the one and only time I have been pulled over in my life. I was with Emily
. We decided to make an impromptu trip to Paducah to watch her then boyfriend and my future boyfriend play baseball in the OVC tournament. As we were drivng down 24 at a speed much higher than the speed limit, we went under an overpass and what do you know...got caught in a speed trap! I can't remember how fast I was going but it was not slow for sure. The nice office issued me a ticket and considering I had never had one before, I wasn't exactly sure what to do, so I asked him! He gave me three options...1) Take the ticket and show up in court and go through that process. 2) Give him my bond card (who has one of those?) or 3) Pay in cash. I looked at Emily then back at the cop and said oh I HAVE CASH!! I had $80 to pay my $75 ticket and surprisingly enough, he couldn't make change. This should have tipped us off that this practice was exactly on the up and up. Fortunately, Emily had a couple ones and so did I and we were able to come up with $75 on the dot. We drove way and made it to baseball game in plently of time! The best part was, about 6 months later, I got the standard letter from the Secretary of State Mr. Jesse White thanking me for my perfect driving record! I wonder how many people that cop was able to get cash from? I appauld him for his desire to pad his own pocket. Sounds pretty true to form for the state of Illinois. He was probably helping some one buy a senate seat or something....
. We decided to make an impromptu trip to Paducah to watch her then boyfriend and my future boyfriend play baseball in the OVC tournament. As we were drivng down 24 at a speed much higher than the speed limit, we went under an overpass and what do you know...got caught in a speed trap! I can't remember how fast I was going but it was not slow for sure. The nice office issued me a ticket and considering I had never had one before, I wasn't exactly sure what to do, so I asked him! He gave me three options...1) Take the ticket and show up in court and go through that process. 2) Give him my bond card (who has one of those?) or 3) Pay in cash. I looked at Emily then back at the cop and said oh I HAVE CASH!! I had $80 to pay my $75 ticket and surprisingly enough, he couldn't make change. This should have tipped us off that this practice was exactly on the up and up. Fortunately, Emily had a couple ones and so did I and we were able to come up with $75 on the dot. We drove way and made it to baseball game in plently of time! The best part was, about 6 months later, I got the standard letter from the Secretary of State Mr. Jesse White thanking me for my perfect driving record! I wonder how many people that cop was able to get cash from? I appauld him for his desire to pad his own pocket. Sounds pretty true to form for the state of Illinois. He was probably helping some one buy a senate seat or something....Eat, Drink, and Be Mary!
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