The bastards! They found other ways to get my money!
I was driving #2 Son to work. As usual he was running late and I had to make up the difference. In front of me was this truck driven by Jose’ El Gato and his co-mower Miguel, for the Nonorinisume Lawn Service and Catering.
In front of the truck was a long line of cars, waiting to make a left hand turn. The red light turned green and the moron in the front took his time in moving. By the time I got into the intersection, the light was turning red again! I had to chance going through, the truck blocked my view of the light, and the dog ate my homework!
A few weeks pass and I get the mail. Only one thing in the mail, a traffic ticket! The bastards gave me a ticket for going through a red light!
TLW (The Little Woman) comes home from work.
“Any mail?”
“Nah, nothing.” It’s a Friday, so why ruin her pizza dinner. I wait for Sunday morning after all, I’m paying for her eggs over easy, bacon and rye toast, she can’t yell at me.
In the diner that following Sunday I lean over my scramble eggs with French fries extra crispy and come clean.
“I got a ticket.”
“Oh!”
Her reply takes me by surprise.
“Yes, I went and paid it with a credit card, on line. They give you a web site to see yourself doing the bad thing. There I was , watching myself break the law. I thought; you criminal you!”
“Is that it?”
Sheepishly: “Yes!”
“Pay the bill so I can get out of here.”
“Don’t tell my mother, please.”
1 comment:
Bummer. I've been trying to get my local politicians to sponsor a bill saying that if they install a red light cameras, they must also have one of those signs that counts down the seconds before the light changes. At least we'd have a fighting chance. I'm not optimistic.
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