'Kay I dunno if this belongs in the Whine thread or the happy news thread. I'll put it here, cause the good news outranks the whine. I just registered Aureilia for Kindergarten this morning!!! She starts in September. Wow. Her gestation seriously messed with my writing of the forgotten time and now she's GOING TO KINDERGARTEN!!?? Crazy.
So the whine:
A few days ago, I had to go to the school at 7 pm in the dark for an open house thingy. We live in a small town now, and it's rural, and there are NO streetlights. Maybe at, like, a stop sign, or what have you, but mostly it is DARK. I have absolutely and completely zero sense of direction, and our car's lights are feeble. So I'm trying to find this school I've never been to in the dark with the above factors all hampering me. It took me 27 km of driving up and down to realize that I'd passed it twice somehow. It's only about 7 km from the house.
So today, I get up and into the car at 820 am to go register her at the office. In broad daylight the turns I had THOUGHT I'd memorized so carefully that 1st time I'd tried to find it were redONKulously easy to see, and I found myself on the right road in no time at all...with 0.2 of a km to get to the school, I round a bend and notice suddenly a police car on the side of the road next to the school zone speed limit sign with a cop younger than me gleefully clutching his radar gun and staring straight into my eyes.
Because it took so long to find last week in the dark, I didn't expect the school zone so fast, and though I was braking, I wasn't fast enough.
I've had my license for 12 years and never once ever even been pulled over. He said (politely and regretfully) there's zero tolerance in school zones for any speeding, and he had to ticket me. I now owe the damn Government of British Columbia $190. Which right now is about $190 USD. My first ticket. yyyyeeeee-hah.
Worst whine is, I have directly Gordon Campbell, the bloody Liberals*, and their bloody expensive pet Targ the Olympics to THANK for this show of dedicated officers surrounding the school. They have just thrown bajillions into the RCMP for the upcoming Olympics and there are two-car speed traps every where you look. Kay, I agree that stepping up security in VANCOUVER where the stupid circus actually IS, but HERE? In fuckin' Cow-Town, BC? C'mon. whine, whine, whine
But Kindergarten! YAY!
(See how conflicted I am?)
*[unconnected factoid: The "Liberal" party of BC is not what you'd think from the name. I consider myself of a liberal political standpoint, and yet you'd have to put bamboo under my fingernails to get me to even be in a photo with any of the Liberal party members, bunch of big-business-licking, scandalous, drunk-driving, old-people-and-children-sacrificing beasts that they are. The Premier himself, ol' Gordie was picked in up Hawaii for
DRUNK DRIVING while IN office, and we voted HIM BACK IN, and HE"S STILL IN?! DEAR GOD!!!! What a strange world we live in.] Sorry, random rant.
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