Monday, June 02, 2008

A WANTED MAN!!

So we're going to keep posting but just FYI we've started a blog for our (Cindy and I) family. We'd love to hear from you there too if you're really getting into blogging: nateandcindypetersonfamily.blogspot.com

So I drove down to St. George this past weekend to attend the wedding of a girl whose father I worked for through high school. On my way home I got pulled over (the officer said 89 but I was only doing 83, I know still speeding so I didn't say anything :)) and given a ticket ($107 ouch). When the officer returned to my car he asked if I was aware that there was a warrant out for my arrest. I instantly thought that my identity had been stolen and that this was going to get ugly. I told him that I had no idea and he proceeded to remind me of a ticket I was issued last June for failing to use my blinker (OK I actually swerved across four lanes of traffic so that I wouldn't miss my exit but he was kind enough to write me up for failing to signal). I knew I'd paid the ticket and told him that I had a receipt. He asked if I had it on me and when I obviously did not he told me all the things he was supposed to do (take me to jail, impound my car, etc.) but said he was going to make a note that he'd talked with me and that if I was pulled over again without having taken care of it I would be booked. I spent all day looking through my electronic receipts with no luck. My electronic bank statements only went back to the end of June 2007. I thought I was going to have to pay $206.50 to clear my warrant but I finally found a paper copy of my statement and the carbon copy of my check stub.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Keep your receipts..... or don't break the law... :)

1 comment:

Tennesseeans said...

I think you already told us what we should do, Nate.
Not breaking the law is easier than trying to find an old reciept.