I never thought I would be asked this question. . .

Another trial of Jon's beater car (an '88 Chevy Baretta). . .

So a funny thing happened on my way home from Book Club (book club was so fun, by the way)- last Thursday night. I was driving Jon's beater car and I was pulled over by a cop- and as I saw the flashing lights behind me, I couldn't figure out why I was being pulled over. I wasn't speeding, was I? The cop came up and said- "Ma'am, have you been drinking tonight? I pulled you over because you were weaving". What??? I was so astonished I choked out "no!!" He took one look at me and I could tell he knew I hadn't been drinking and that my appearance and age suprised him. He took my driver's license and came back a few minutes later, handed it back to me and nicely sent me on my way. All the rest of the way home I was trying to figure out how I had been "weaving", while freezing because I couldn't roll up the driver side window (Brooke- you might remember what happens to that window when I roll it down!). When I got home I told Jon the story, he shook his head and told me I had been profiled because of the car. The cop probably thought I was a high school student out late drinking (I was near the high school) and made up the excuse that I was weaving. Jon has been pulled over twice now because of the car- it seriously looks like a drug addicts car! Once the "reasons" he was pulled over was for having a light out, and the other was for it being loud- - both times with no ticket or even a warning - - once they realized that we are about the opposite of the "profile". One of the times it was a police officer that lives in our ward- - it was in the middle of the night in the hospital parking lot as Jon was traveling from one Hospital to the other on his rounds. He about choked when he saw it was Jon, in his white coat. Anyway- maybe this is incentive to get a new car??? Ahh the humiliation . . . Actually, I think it is hilarous. Jon will sometimes make a joke out of it when he is getting out of it in his white coat - - he will say "the down turn of the economy has been rough. . . " Again- it runs great- so we will keep driving it - - for no car payment!