Yes.. it is still funny.
So I got my first speeding ticket.
I was trying to get to the bank on time then back to work, during my lunch hour, after having gone home first to pick up the check the local power utility issued with apparently all due haste, and pay my rent which is late. Late enough that I got an angry letter from the landlord even though I explained the Hydro situation.. and, yay, vehicle registration is due next week!
The story goes like so:
I was coming up to a corner with a tractor trailer and a van. Minding my own bidnis. The van is following the tractor trailer instead of being off to the side to turn the corner.
I'm in no mood to oblige further idiocy with courtesy so I nuzzle up to the corner and prepare to turn, while respecting the van's middle of the road space and the tractor trailer's obviously inclination to turn (no one is signaling).
So the trailer does turn, I'm like great.. but so does the idiot in the van when the only available already has me and the tractor trailer ahead of us.
So Captain not the finest example.. does he settle in behind me? NO! he tries to pass me AND a tractor trailer on a tiny little stretch of road leading to an unprotected intersection (cavendish below cote-de-liesse) that's fed from a CN train yard (so I figure that's where he's going) and a 3 lane road that you can't see from the one lane we three are sharing.. in the oncoming lane, but he doesn't turn into the CN yard..
I'm like FUCK!!! NO!!! WTF! if anyone is coming from the other direction, speeding into the corner as they usually would, they'd have crashed right into him.. and it isn't like the tractor trailer can do anything but take the outside lane totally blocking access to the other two lane..
I'm like, I'm just going to clear out so that he can have the damn lane if he's stupid enough to block essentially 3 lanes of traffic trying to blind pass another vehicle AND a tractor trailer.
Of course to clear the tractor trailer myself giving idiot box access to two lanes and not 3 on coming lanes.. I have to.. speed up.
The cop wasn't having it, 'dommage', at least he reduced the infraction speed to what I saw on my speedo as he flipped on his lights.
Sigh.
Frankly I'll take a ticket if it avoids an accident because someone else is being a dumbass.
Plus I mean I just got back the extra few hundred dollars that Hydro has been hording.
Which obviously wasn't getting cashed at a teller in the afternoon since I had to get back to work, after the ticket I mean. And so my rent isn't getting paid today, or tomorrow as the rent office is closed until Monday if they don't answer their emergency phone
So I get to the bank eventually and the teller is like.. So you work for Hydro? trying to figure out just why he'd be cashing the paper I just handed him.
I'm like, I've been waiting all week for you to say that.. but No.. If I had my way I'd burn Hydro head office to the ground, which was after he did the cursory.. You look like you need a hug, after seeing the 125$ speeding ticket, ink not even dry.. Just cash this for me and process that for me please. and I'm like you don't even know buddy. You don't even know and I'm too tired and hungry (since I still haven't plugged the fridge back in since last week) to really take the time to go over it.. and the bank was closing in 2 minutes anyway.. lady dragging the gate closed nearly backed up into me as I tried to slide by her to get out.
Can't catch a god damned break
So I got my first speeding ticket.
I was trying to get to the bank on time then back to work, during my lunch hour, after having gone home first to pick up the check the local power utility issued with apparently all due haste, and pay my rent which is late. Late enough that I got an angry letter from the landlord even though I explained the Hydro situation.. and, yay, vehicle registration is due next week!
The story goes like so:
I was coming up to a corner with a tractor trailer and a van. Minding my own bidnis. The van is following the tractor trailer instead of being off to the side to turn the corner.
I'm in no mood to oblige further idiocy with courtesy so I nuzzle up to the corner and prepare to turn, while respecting the van's middle of the road space and the tractor trailer's obviously inclination to turn (no one is signaling).
So the trailer does turn, I'm like great.. but so does the idiot in the van when the only available already has me and the tractor trailer ahead of us.
So Captain not the finest example.. does he settle in behind me? NO! he tries to pass me AND a tractor trailer on a tiny little stretch of road leading to an unprotected intersection (cavendish below cote-de-liesse) that's fed from a CN train yard (so I figure that's where he's going) and a 3 lane road that you can't see from the one lane we three are sharing.. in the oncoming lane, but he doesn't turn into the CN yard..
I'm like FUCK!!! NO!!! WTF! if anyone is coming from the other direction, speeding into the corner as they usually would, they'd have crashed right into him.. and it isn't like the tractor trailer can do anything but take the outside lane totally blocking access to the other two lane..
I'm like, I'm just going to clear out so that he can have the damn lane if he's stupid enough to block essentially 3 lanes of traffic trying to blind pass another vehicle AND a tractor trailer.
Of course to clear the tractor trailer myself giving idiot box access to two lanes and not 3 on coming lanes.. I have to.. speed up.
The cop wasn't having it, 'dommage', at least he reduced the infraction speed to what I saw on my speedo as he flipped on his lights.
Sigh.
Frankly I'll take a ticket if it avoids an accident because someone else is being a dumbass.
Plus I mean I just got back the extra few hundred dollars that Hydro has been hording.
Which obviously wasn't getting cashed at a teller in the afternoon since I had to get back to work, after the ticket I mean. And so my rent isn't getting paid today, or tomorrow as the rent office is closed until Monday if they don't answer their emergency phone
So I get to the bank eventually and the teller is like.. So you work for Hydro? trying to figure out just why he'd be cashing the paper I just handed him.
I'm like, I've been waiting all week for you to say that.. but No.. If I had my way I'd burn Hydro head office to the ground, which was after he did the cursory.. You look like you need a hug, after seeing the 125$ speeding ticket, ink not even dry.. Just cash this for me and process that for me please. and I'm like you don't even know buddy. You don't even know and I'm too tired and hungry (since I still haven't plugged the fridge back in since last week) to really take the time to go over it.. and the bank was closing in 2 minutes anyway.. lady dragging the gate closed nearly backed up into me as I tried to slide by her to get out.
Can't catch a god damned break