Damn. Lost an earring. Got water on my shirt. Hair dryer broke. I’m running late. Now I don’t have time to stop and grab that Chi Tea Latte and the coveted Ginger Molasses Cookie. Starbucks is the ONLY place in the world where you will ever hear a man ask……”Can I warm that cookie up for you?” Oh well, better for my butt if I skip the sweets today anyway.
Sitting at the stoplight singing away.
“If you loved me then you should have put a ring on it…oh oh oh oh …”
LONG light.
Touch up the lip gloss.
Gee. My hair actually looks good today.
Green and away we huh?
Bleep bleep *flashing lights*
What on earth?
~not speeding
~Didn’t jump the light?
~OK, pulling over Mr Cop Man.
The officer approaches the car.
Ohhh …..Mrs. Cop Man. Sorry.
“License and Registration” She says.
“Sure. Um…Is there a problem?” I query.
“Yes Mam, your license plate does not match the vehicle you are driving.”
Huh??? And might I add a silent …What the Hell??
“I’ve only had this SUV for three weeks. My husband took care of all the paperwork, and you won’t believe this but I can’t find my ownership or proof of insurance.”
“Stay in the vehicle Mam”
This is when she gets on her handheld radio and takes my ID back to her car.
I start to phone my Hubby to find out exactly why my plates don’t match my new car. At this point a second police cruiser comes screaming up. Lights flashing. He blocks the street.
Apparently when you “steal” a car, you get a lot of attention.
Great. I’m going to be on “COPS”.
Hubs calls the owner of the car dealership.
Owner of the dealership calls me.
“Modernmom, we will get this straightened out, in the meantime “ He advises. “be sweet and flirt with him a little?”
“Dude! The officer is a chick!”
“Oh”..says owner man….”Is she wearing comfortable shoes?”
40 minutes and many many conversations later the officers decide to let the ModernMom with the shaking hands go free. It has become clear that I am NOT a thief, and that the dealership who sold us the car simply forgot to transfer the old plates to our new vehicle.
I have 24 hours to produce ownership of this vehicle and proof of insurance.
Done and done.
Today’s lesson.
Always make sure your plates are properly transferred when you get a new car!
Apparently in the Suburbs car thieves can look like soccer moms.
Thank the powers that be that the nice officers believed my story that I am not a thief, just a blond having a really bad day.
Police officers routinely run license checks. There doesn’t have to be anything suspicious about the car or you. Some of the other comments questioned why the officer checked your plate as if to suggest they did something wrong. Not at all. Your plate is public view and they have the right to run any plate, and for no reason. It just so happened that yours got run and the mix up created a nice blog story for you.
That is the most bizarre story (and I work in law enforcement)! Goofy mistake – glad they straightened it out!
oh my goodness. that would be hilarious if it wasn’t true!!! “flirt with him a little” what? how about get you car dealership people do your job!?! I would have been ballistic!
That’s frightening! But my question is…why did she run your plates in the first place? Why did you seem suspicious to you? Hmmmmm?
Sorry, Hot Stuff. Sensible shoes, ha, ha, I like your hubby, funny.
Glad all is okay, ack, hate the stress for you on top of your ebay nonsense. You are so welcome btw for that little info, credit card companies take disputes very seriously, and demand an explanation from the seller.
That is something I would totally do…now that I think of it, I’m not completely sure that my new insurance card is even in my car – yikes! Glad things worked out.
I’m glad that everything worked out! I have worked for car dealerships for 14 years – that is a horrible mistake to make. I also used to loan out service cars and occasionally we would have people that would take forever to bring them back. We didn’t like getting the cops involved because they told us that they were required to approach people in stolen vehicles at gunpoint. At least that didn’t happen to you thankfully!
This is too funny! Thanks for stopping by my blog and the sweet comments honey! I am following you now and hope you visit again. Kori xoxo
That is something I so would not have double checked on. I hope you went home and had yourself a glass or ten of vino. Ah ha
OMG I would of pooped my pants if that happened to me! I’d probably start crying!!
Shit. No latte and a police stop. That should have used up some old bad karma.
This post cracked me up! I love the way you write, lots of humour in your post.
OMG, you poor thing! I just found out that I have been drive both of our vehicles with expired registrations since last AUGUST!!!! Just got on the phone and renewed them the other day, lucky for me, our cops around here are asleep on the job!
Oh my gosh… you are so cute! My hubby’s a police officer (17 years) and I still get nervous passing a cop on the highway!
And PS… just cause she’s a female doesn’t mean flirting wont help! 😉
I hope that dealer gave you some free oil changes!