Aquiring a Ticket
...he surprise, and make a mess of the cars’ interior. As I drove past Holy Redeemer School, I saw traffic officers up ahead! I didn’t think they were actually stopping the vehicles, I remained calm but at the same time thinking about the cake and the many possibilities. Then it hit me that they were checking of insurance and driving license. I immediately started to freak out. Oh my God! I thought to myself. They are going to give me a ticket! I had always passed them on Regent Street near the market, and their purpose there was to free up the traffic. That night, however was different. I could feel it in my entire being that I was in trouble now. I drove a calmly as I could and the traffic officer looked at the cars’ insurance and then asked, “May I see your drivers license?” I swallowed so hard, I knew he heard it. “I don’t have it on me actually,” I said, “it’s in the other bag…and I left it at home.” Profusely sweating, and thinking a million and one things, I got scared. I knew they couldn’t confiscate the car, (it wasn’t mine, but my boyfriends’) so I just prayed he’d let me go. “Mam, I will have to ask you to pullover to the side.” he said. “But I have a cake in here that will melt anytime soon, Officer, I am sure this could be settled later.” I said. He came over to the car looking impatient and said, “Pull over, or I will have them take you to the police station.” Sweating more persistently, I drove to the side, and called my boyfriend panicking now more than ever. “I’m being pulled over by the traffic officers!” I said. “What do I do now?” “Calm down,” he said. “You didn’t see them?” “No,” I said. “I found them just now.” “Well, I’ll be there ok?” he said, freaking out too. Just then, the traffic officer came back with his little black pad in his hand and a pen. “Well, you see,” I explained to him, “I don’t really have a license yet. I have a permit; can you let me go now?” As if sensing my fear and ignorance, he looked at me and smiled. Then he said, “Mam, you are operating a moving vehicle with out a valid license, you’ve never owned one, you are telling me to settle this matter later and now you have the nerve to ask me to let you go?” Feeling ling I had just walked over someone’s grave, I said, “well it would make me very happy if you did. I have a cake that will melt very soon, and tonight is our anniversary and everything is just going wrong...