{"id":19450,"date":"2002-09-30T10:20:28","date_gmt":"2002-09-30T10:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2002\/09\/30\/i-had-a-hard-time-getting-to-work-today"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"i-had-a-hard-time-getting-to-work-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2002\/09\/30\/i-had-a-hard-time-getting-to-work-today","title":{"rendered":"I had a hard time getting to work today."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\nI had a hard time getting to work today. Traffic was lousy, and I was
\nkind of distracted (I’m getting sick, so my head is getting foggy). Oh,
\nand I got pulled over.\n<\/p>\n

\nTravelling westbound on 92, I debated turning on my wipers; my car had
\nbeen parked under a tree all weekend, and was full of schmutz. I was
\ngoing slowly enough (up a hill on 92) that I figured I was probably not
\nin danger of over-spraying wiper fluid all over the car behind me (this
\nis a point of highway courtesy seldom followed). I
\nchecked my rearview mirror to see what kind of car I might be offending
\nin case traffic started moving, sending some of my wiper fluid onto his
\nwindshield.\n<\/p>\n

\n“Hey, it’s the CHP! And they have their lights on! And are motioning
\nme to pull over!”\n<\/p>\n

\n

[The officer<\/span> walks very, very cautiously up to
\nthe passenger-side window of Dan’s<\/span> car.]<\/p>\n

Dan:<\/span> Uh, good morning?<\/p>\n

Officer:<\/span> Do you know why I pulled you
\nover?<\/p>\n

Dan:<\/span> Um, no.<\/p>\n

Officer:<\/span> Your registration has expired.
\nSix, two thousand two. That’s a long time ago.<\/p>\n

Dan:<\/span> Uh, oh, gosh, wait, did I forget to put the sticker on? [Note:
\nthe rest of Dan’s<\/span> lines must be read in the
\nstyle of the geeky monsters from Monsters Inc.<\/a>]<\/em> I must
\nhave forgotten to put the sticker on. [rummages around in glovebox,
\nto the increasing unsettlement of the officer; removes an envelope and
\nempties the contents.]<\/em> See, here it is, I just forgot to put on
\nthe sticker!<\/p>\n

[The officer<\/span> takes the sticker-carrying
\nregistration sheet from Dan’s<\/span> hands and
\nscrutinizes it. He turns it to face Dan<\/span>,
\nslowly, and begins flicking<\/em> the sticker, even more<\/em>
\nslowly.]<\/p>\n

Officer:<\/span> You’ve gotta put<\/em> this
\non.<\/em> [Flick, flick.]<\/em> Where are you driving this morning?<\/p>\n

Dan:<\/span> Uh, to work, sir.<\/p>\n

Officer:<\/span> And where is that located?<\/p>\n

Dan:<\/span> Uh, Sunnyvale, sir. [thinking: “I
\nwork for the White
\nHouse.<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

Officer:<\/span> Well, when you get<\/em> there,
\nyou put<\/em> this sticker<\/em> on right away.<\/em> They’ll
\npull you over for it again if you don’t. Now accelerate slowly, and
\nmerge when it’s safe. [walks away]<\/em><\/p>\n

Dan:<\/span> Thanks, sir, yes, I will, sir!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nTwitch, twitch. I simply do not<\/em> handle interaction with The Law
\ngracefully. (Ask E. to tell you about the time we went through Canadian
\ncustoms. Remember to imagine the geeky-monster voice!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a hard time getting to work today. Traffic was lousy, and I was kind of distracted (I’m getting sick, so my head is getting foggy). Oh, and I got pulled over. Travelling westbound on 92, I debated turning on my wipers; my car had been parked under a tree all weekend, and was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}