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<\/div>\nI’ll admit it…I broke the law this weekend.\u00a0 Actually, I probably break the law every day (What, you don’t jay-walk?), but I got caught red-handed this weekend.\u00a0 I was speeding.\u00a0 73 in a 50 km\/hr residential area.\u00a0 The police officer was standing out in the open, pointing his little speed radar gun at me, and I didn’t notice.\u00a0 I was too busy chatting with Dan and Humphrey about a very successful morning at puppy school.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the good news is that he lowered my speed to 63 km\/hr to avoid the loss of 3 demerit points.\u00a0 The bad news?\u00a0 I’m a delinquent wallet bringer and I had no ID.\u00a0 None.\u00a0 I pretended to look in\u00a0my purse, glove comparment, under both visors and between the seats, but I knew before I started that my search would come up empty.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
That led to ticket number 2.\u00a0 This one for $110 if I did not show up at a police station with my driver’s license within 72 hours.\u00a0 This morning, at hour 68, I arrived at police HQ on Elgin Street with ticket and license in hand.\u00a0 Problem was, there was nowhere to park.\u00a0 All signs said that 1 hour parking was permitted between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm.\u00a0 It was 7:30 am.\u00a0 I briefly thought about waiting around until I was actually\u00a0allowed to park…and then quickly realized how ridiculous that was.\u00a0 I was already late for work, and how long could the wait really be for the cashier at 7:30 am?<\/p>\n
I pulled into the spot and got out, only to see a police car pull up beside me…to wait for the light to turn green.\u00a0 PHEW!\u00a0 But I still felt weird about breaking a rule right beside the cop shop.\u00a0 Wouldn’t they be driving by constantly?\u00a0 Wouldn’t mine be the only car parked on the street and therefore stand out?\u00a0 I took a chance anyway.<\/p>\n
Disaster averted.\u00a0 I was in and out and no one noticed (or make that, no one cared).\u00a0 The funny thing is that this whole mess didn’t do much to stop me, my\u00a0lead foot\u00a0or my law-bending <\/em>ways.\u00a0 I had to laugh at myself when I noticed that I was speeding down Colonel By Drive this morning, on the way to pay my speeding ticket.\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00a0 Maybe Dan and I should move to Germany<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 I’ll admit it…I broke the law this weekend.\u00a0 Actually, I probably break the law every day (What, you don’t jay-walk?), but I got caught red-handed this weekend.\u00a0 I was speeding.\u00a0 73 in a 50 km\/hr residential area.\u00a0 The police officer was standing out in the open, pointing his little speed radar gun at me, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[28,30,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}