No complaints allowed..only some really good music

Does this CD look familiar to you?

It is the CD that was playing in my good ol' Pathfinder the first time I got pulled over by a cop when I was 16.


Officer: Could you please turn your music off?
Me: Yes sir! I'm so sorry!!!" {insert internal squeal of embarrassment}

I'm pretty sure I hadn't listened to it since then..and this very same CD was found (probably in the depths of the Pathfinder passenger seat pocket) a couple months ago by the body-repair shop guy, and just discovered by me last week when I finally went through the trash bag of stuff that they gave me from my poor old car--Missing Dixie Chicks CD retrieved... 10 years later!

Well, 10 years later, I got pulled over by a cop again this afternoon....actually for the FOURTH time since I got my license.

And for the fourth time (brace yourself because this is so not fair and I know it...)

I got a verbal warning.

Yes.

Four times being pulled over.
Four times no ticket.

It is so funny the places in my life where I see grace, because I most certainly deserved TWO tickets today. One for speeding, and one for still not getting my new car inspected. {that calls for two squeals of embarrassment}

Officer: I clocked you at 79 in a 65. And why don't you have an inspection sticker?

Me: Ummm well? New car, vacation, baby in back seat, blah blah blah, ramble ramble....

Officer: You were speeding and you are supposed to get your car inspected. {And I will give you a stern look and an intimidating glare}.

Me: {Digging for my license and embarrassed as I pull Tootsie Rolls out of my pocketbook so that I can get to it} Here is my license and insurance but my new car isn't on it...I think I have that one, too....{lots of frantic digging in my glove compartment box + a thought bubble: Oooo maybe I will find my missing ipod while I look in here!..}

Officer: Just let me see our insurance. This one is up to date so you wouldn't have another one--look, do you see that the expiration date is in 2012?

Me: Yes sir, you are right. I just saw my old car on there and thought th--.....{cut off}

Officer: I will be right back..

~~~Me texting my friend, Lindsey: CRAPCRAPCRAP the officer that just pulled me over is super mean. ~~~

speaking of crap...

{Office returns to my window} Officer: I noticed that a bird REALLY attacked your car back there! {insert his hahahas and laughing}....

Sidenote: I have been referring to bird poop covering my trunk as the bird turd massacre of 2011--it was seriously heinous. (also, I hate that word...)

Me: {Uh oh..is he laughing at me?!?) Ha ha...Oh I know!!! The bird just totally got me-- I realllllly need to get my car washed. AND I need to get my car inspected!!! {insert my best attempt at a guilty cute face}

Officer: Haha! Well I suggest you actually take care of the bird poop first..man that can really mess up your car!

Me: Yes sir!

Officer: Ok, verbal warning for today! You have a good afternoon.

Me: Ok! I'm going to get my car washed and inspected...um thank you!!! {ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!}

{Officer helps me pull out into the traffic and we wave as I drive off}

WHAT?!?! Seriously?!?!

My dad thinks it is because I am not a man. That was not his exact phrasing, but we will leave it at that.

I think that I am just incredibly lucky. Perhaps it is because I get so frantic and pathetic that they maybe feel sorry for me...(please note that I have never once cried to a police officer)

I immediately went to get the car wash (which Owen loved, by the way). --This time there were no Dixie Chicks to sing to on my ride home, but I did rock out to some 90's at 9 because I have 3 free months of XM radio in my car.

Which reminds me, I have acquired a new nineties style marathon training play list to put on my ipod...oh wait, my ipod is missing!! urggg...but YOU can enjoy my nineties play list {see sidebar}.

Owen has been enjoying my recent tunes as well. Afterall, don't tummy time and hammer time go hand in hand?

So there you have it: no ipod but no ticket, so no complaints allowed.

I will--just really quickly---complain about some nineties no-nos I have recently been reminded of thanks to my XM channel of choice...

Aqua's Barbiegirl
Joey Lawrence's Nothin' My Love Can't Fix
Eminem's The Real Slim Shady
B*witched's C'Est la Vie
Pretty much anything and everything by Snoop Dog & Dr. Dre

There is a reason why I forgot those songs existed. The nineties might have been much better without those unfortunate additions.

Alas, I hope you enjoy all of the memories that come along with each song on my play list! Maybe one of them was playing the first time you got pulled over? ; )