talk my way out of a speeding ticket

The only time that it did not work was when:

I had a passenger in the car with me.-The ticket was for speeding because Berta told me to hurry home, cause she had to go pee after drinking a bunch of iced tea at this Christmas around the world party we had just went to.

They had a partner with them.-The Female partner saw me do a CA stop because I had to go pee when I was pregnant. I stop and three little Mexican girls get out of my car and run into their apt. The cop just looks and asks me what that was all about after he looked at my license and noticed that I did not live in that neighbourhood. I explained that I worked at a preschool and I was giving one of the Mom’s and her sister who worked there and the daughter a ride home because I found out that they were walking.I also tutored the other little girl at the library because it was chaotic in the apt.. After that I go pick my husband up from work because we car pool. We earned a free phone in the car pool program. I did not have the heart to tell him I really needed to go pee and play the pregnancy card. I could tell he felt really bad about giving me the ticket and he did not want to look bad in front of the female officer, who saw me no stop, by just letting me go. He told me that it was a very bad neighbourhood and that I should be careful.

The cop was female.-I was leaving the mall and wanted to make a left hand turn but this old lady in the boat of a car, was just sitting there facing me. I did not know if she was going straight or turning? Finally she goes to turn so I make my turn and behind her is this cop car heading right for me! OMG! She pulls me over and yells at me,”If I was jerk with my head up my @$$ and not paying attention I could have hit you!” I explained that I was waiting for the old lady and it was finally clear. I give her the car registration and it was still in McPunk’s name because no one would co-sign for me on a new loan even though I had been making all the payments(“that car to too expensive for you blah blah”...Shut Up!) she gets all pissy about that so I have to explain…To be honest this was one ticket that I did not deserve.

so, after a few glasses of wine from 8 PM to ?? I was sleepy, but not under the influence.

The officer said I was doing 60 in a 40. I said I was not paying attention to the speed limit, which is true. His car and mine were the only ones on the road.

I’d had probably 5 glasses of wine over 5 hours … and though I did the follow the pen with my eyes test, and did the toe-heel walking test, I was not so good on the stand on one foot test. Luckily, the breathalyser showed me at .04, or half the limit.

I don’t want to do this again. Next time, sleep in the car.

Whew.