South Carolina Plates
I left work and started happily driving home. I turned down St. Mary's Road as it's my evening route....I have a different route in the morning which is more direct but in the evening I like to look at the round barns and the horses. I was playing the new Ian Hunter rather loudly as it's really sounding good to me. I noticed up ahead that somebody coming in my direction was pulled over to the side of the road. I wondered what they were doing and happened to look in my rearview mirror......flashing lights. I turned the music down and then I could hear the sirens.
Oops.
Evidently I hadn't stopped QUITE enough at the stop sign a ways back.
Oops
Oh....and my driver's license....I didn't have it with me. Sometimes when Ernie and I go out I have this habit from back in the days when I would get carded of giving him my ID to carry. Why do I still do that when I haven't been carded in a decade or two? Hell I don't know but when we went to see David Olney in Indianapolis last weekend I gave Ernie my license to hold as I wasn't carrying a purse.
Oops.
Oh, and the car is still registered to Judi and has South Carolina plates. I actually had the title and a copy of her will and the paperwork from the court in my bag with me as I had hoped to get the DMV last Friday afternoon but we took longer at the bank than we thought and so we didn't get there.
Oops.
So of course that means I didn't have proof of insurance either.
Oops.
So then I had to sit there almost an hour----I kid you not----while the cop waited for the information from South Carolina.
At one point another cop pulled up but evidently my cop told him he could handle the teary, overweight woman in her dead sister's car on his own so he left.
It's amazing how much traffic there is on St. Mary's road between 5:00 and 6:00 on a Wednesday evening.
The cop was actually extremely kind. He was probably sorry he stopped me by the end of it. He even came back to the car at one point to apologize for it taking so long to hear back from South Carolina. I ended up with a warning for the stop sign and no driver's license and a $75 ticket for not having transferred the registration.
You know, transferring the title and registration is the last thing I really have to do. I've payed her debts, I've sent checks to where she wanted money to go. It'll take forever to get through the investment/trust for the boys stuff but it's in progress. But somehow I hate the thought of getting rid of those South Carolina plates. This way it still looks like Judi's car.....the Free Tibet sticker and the South Carolina plates. And the Free Tibet sticker is on the rear window not the rear bumper and that always cracks me up because I can just see Judi not wanting to tarnish her perfect bumper so she put it on the rear window....
I cried really hard the rest of the way home just because I missed Judi so much.....and because now I have to get Illinois plates for her car.