in my last entry i presented a copy of an article i put in a local paper. i have written short articles often, and my articles have ALWAYS been printed, either in the current publication, or the next one. i went to this week's publication and thumbed through till i found the page that would contain the article, and.................not there. this raises some questions...........did they omit it by error? or were there too many entries for it to make it to the list? (i doubt this, for some of the entries were silly or stupid one sentence items) or........is the paper afraid of saying anything at all that is against police officers?
as a friend of mine, who is a police officer, pointed out, this officer could have been on a minor mission that did not require lights and siren. yep.........i followed the officer straight to the captain d's and watched what looked like a male officer (hard to tell sometimes these days) get out of the car and walk over to another car, where a woman got out and accompanied him into the restaurant. i guess she was the backup...........sigh. i just don't understand why it is that people just cannot follow the rules. and that means everyone. i guess this officer was late for lunch with the wife or girlfriend, and wanted to make sure that they didn't get a "ticket" from this person for being late for lunch.
i have only gotten two tickets in my 39 years of driving, and both were recently, in the past 2 years. so this isn't a complaint from a disgruntled traffic violation perpetrator. it is from me, a concerned citizen, that likes to see things work the way they are meant to. i am going to submit the article again and see what happens.
ok, i am done venting..........at least about this..............
1 comment:
OK then, lunch is not a good excuse to speed, regardless of what kind of car you are in. You have a right to be a bit miffed at him/her.
Greg
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