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Apr. 15, 2008
POLICE!
That's right, I said police! We got a good dose of them too! No, We didn't get any tickets or even official warnings. But I guess we look strange enough that they want to see what hippies we are. The first one we met was a sheriff. We were trying to figure out how to get to a highway and had not totally pulled out of the lane of travel. Well, anyways, the sheriff drove over, parked in the ditch, and came over and said "Hey, your car busted or something? Your in the lane of traffic." Daddy answered "Oh, sorry, we didn't notice (starting the car and pulling over)." Mama adds "Can you help us figure out how to get to this highway?" The sheriff looked at the map we had and quickly showed us the way to go.
The second encounter with a policeman wasn't so pleasant.
Forest wasn't wearing his shirt and was kind-of slumping sleepilly in the middle of the car. The middle seat in the back of the car had a lap belt. I had a shoulder belt because I was on the side of the car. We pulled up to an intersection and I glanced out my window. There was a policeman on a police motercycle. I always think of these as "Modern Mounted Police"! I wondered why he kept glancing at us. I said "Daddy, do you know there is a policeman beside us?" Daddy said yes. The red light changed to green. Daddy started to go. When we were half through the intersection I noticed red-and-blue flashing lights. At that moment Mama said "Henry, Your being pulled over by the police" Dad found a side street and pulled over. The Police guy pulled over behind us. I don't think they ever pull over in front of people, do they? He walked up to us with a scrutinizing frown on his face and asked "Do you know why I pulled you over? Dad answered No in a puzzled tone. The policeman then said "That little boy in the back seat, is he strapped in to anything? Daddy, Mama, Forest and I all answered in unison " YES". The policeman squinted and Forest sat up a little straighter so he could see. He then asked "Is it plugged in?" Forest and I lifted it a bit to show him it was. He squinted a tiny bit more and said "It's pretty loose, better tighten it." Forest did and he asked for Dad's drivers license, asked if he had ever had a California drivers license, Dad said no so he asked his little microphone for the status on dad's license then said to fix our right brake light when we got wherever we were going. After that he left.
I think those times where the most exciting times of the trip!
Better go,
Emily Rose |
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Posted by Anonymous 
Apr. 15, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Love,
Mama