The last few days have been quite the mixed bag, full of awfulness and awesomeness. I've been hit on by a creepy coworker and simultaneously rescued by an awesome one, received a parking ticket then given some excellent advice about how to avoid them permanently, taken a disappointingly abbreviated tour of the capitol yet had the pleasure of creeping on two weddings held in the Assembly Chamber. And this morning I listened to a sermon I hated, yet was treated extremely kindly by total strangers.
But the pinnacle of this mixed bag weekend: this afternoon I got pulled over for running a light while driving home from the grocery store. So there's the awful. The awesome: the cop looked at my info, realized I've only been here two weeks, believed me when I admitted I wasn't paying attention because I'd gotten a little turned around, and let me off with a warning. She also looked at my home address and took it upon herself to give me some safety tips; apparently there's been a lot of break-ins along my street over the past couple weeks.
And then the random hilarious: she looked at me funny when I told her I'd moved here from Michigan. She then handed me the printout of my info; turns out the DMV made a mistake and put in that I'd moved here from Minnesota. "Probably just a typo," she said, "But you probably want to give them a call and get that fixed. I'm looking at you and I'm pretty sure you're not trying to "Bourne" and switch identities or something, but it doesn't look great to have that mistake on your information."
?!?!?!
Oh yes, she DID use "Bourne" as a verb. AND she gave me directions on the quickest route home.
So yep, the cops around here are REALLY cool. :D
Maybe start a viewing party and you can find the Donna to your Josh. There is no one who cannot benefit from the awesomeness of The West Wing.
ReplyDeleteTell the truth, Lindsay...it wasn't a 'mistake', was it? You've decided to go Bourne on us and this is just the first step. Any day you'll be Parkouring all over Madison, wearing leather and muttering about Treadstone and the cops will be wishing you were just running lights!