I should have blogged this when it was still fresh, rather than waiting almost a week, but I had important things to do like sleep and go to meetings.
Several weeks ago, I totally rolled through a stop sign. This shouldn't come as a surprise, because I ALWAYS roll through stop signs--if I'm the only one at the intersection. It's a very slow roll, mind you, but it is not a full and complete stop.
So a copper was totally hiding out around the corner, just waiting for someone to roll through that particular stop sign, and I was the lucky bastard who got caught.
Of course, I was on my way to pick Soph and B up from choir, so I had to call the school and let the secretary (AKA, my mom) know that I was getting a ticket and would be late. So, here are the 3 worst things about getting that particular ticket.
3. E, his backseat driving skills honed by taking Janz driving several times a week in preparation for his driver's license test, has been nagging at me for weeks to stop rolling through stop signs. He was able to contain his glee, but only just, when I reported to him that he had been, in fact, right.
2. That bugger was expensive!!! 90 smacks for the ticket, and then 60 to go to...
1. Traffic school! What a frigging joke. The cop teaching the class was late. His power point was from 2003. Really people, for 60 bucks a pop, I feel like they can update the power point once every five years or so. Sheesh. On top of that, the dude spent so much time adrift in the land of digression, he flipped through the slides that actually had any information about traffic laws and the adherence thereof in about 5 seconds. I quit counting the type-errors on the ppt and in the handouts after about number 40.
Today's best thing about being a mom: Soph's memorizing the poem "The Swing" from Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses for her class talent show. I really need to post some video. She recites it with such enthusiasm and emotion. Precious.
Today's worst thing about being a mom: (Had to pause and think a while today. Nice.) I guess her sudden aversion to bath taking.
2 comments:
Whoah, whoah, whoah, back up a second. Janz in drivers ed? Good Lord! Also, so glad you're back!
Becca-I have been thinking about you so much. I am sorry I dropped off the face of the planet-I've been up to my face in dance concert stuff. I love you I love you. Any chance of getting together...someday?
Jen
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