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22314 posts
3/4/2015 9:14 pm

Looks Can Be Deceiving

HOW old are you?

Last time I renewed my driver’s license I was asked this question a couple of times because I can still pass the eye test without glasses. Just don’t ask me to read a menu without them though.

It happened again today. I was coming back home from an afternoon get together with a friend in town. I was sitting at a red light when the police car behind me turned his lights on. What now? I had waited until the light turned green and wasn’t even in second gear yet. License, registration and proof of insurance please...................

Turned out there is a problem with my registration sticker. No big issue. I just have to go to the DVM and get it fixed. I have proof that I paid the registration back in Oct. so there is obviously some sort of mix up. However I almost think I’d rather have a ticket though than wait in line at the DMV.

When I rounded up my documents and gave them to the officer he kept looking at my license then at me. I thought it was the usual issue I have with my license. The DMV computer system can’t do hyphenated last names (remember this is a typical government system) so mine ends up as one very long strange looking unpronounceable word. The photo is only a year old though and ugly but accurate.

No, not that. He looked at the license, then back looking at me again. Finally he asks “How old are you?” I replied “Are you really going to make me say that out loud?” We both laughed.

OK, I’ll admit it. He probably doesn’t see too many women a few months shy of 70 driving what Mrsjoe calls a toy sports car (muddy because I live back in the hills and it rained for 4 days) wearing embroidered jeans, a fringe rawhide belt a hippie style peasant top, clogs and no makeup with long hair in a ponytail. All he had to do was ask me to get out of the car and watch my age appropriate arthritic bones creak and groan and hobble over to the side walk.

First thing tomorrow, around noon for me, I'm off, proof of payment in hand, to stand in the DMV line for the rest of the day.

Spiritwoman ^i^

Hawkslayer 88M

13327 posts
3/5/2015 5:14 am

Very funny!

Alfie...

It only takes a drop of ink to make a million people think. There are many stories.

Nileyears 71F

4208 posts
3/5/2015 6:11 am

That's cute!!

spiritwoman45

3/5/2015 10:29 am

Definitely my behavior. I never did like to foll ow the rules but eventually learned to do it in ways that don't get me into trouble. Just plain good fortune on the eye thing.

Spiritwoman ^i^

spiritwoman45

3/5/2015 10:33 am

brightsmile003

Glad you did. Most of us creative types find ourselves in similar situations. My sister once got stopped for speeding dressed in a fairy costume. She was on her way to a costume party dressed as the "truth fairy". Her explanation for not wearing her seat belt was that it would mess up her wings. She did not get a ticket. I think the officer was scared he might have to hear more justifications.

Spiritwoman ^i^

shuel2002 65F

5537 posts
3/5/2015 12:53 pm

I enjoyed this blog. It was quite amusing.

Elaine Shuel

spiritwoman45

3/6/2015 9:39 am

shuel2002

Happy to share a laugh. It's rare that being pulled over by the police is funny. As I searched through my huge tote bag and around the car for documents I was reminded what a dangerous job even being a traffic is. If I were a criminal type I could have pulled a weapon out of my bag and shot him before he knew what was happening. Hope he got a giggle out of stopping a crazy old lady instead.

Spiritwoman ^i^

GLUMO 89F

9730 posts
3/6/2015 10:53 am

I can imagine the scene.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.(Khalil Gibran)