okay........ a HUGE shout out to michael for the help with upgrading my MT over the past 2 bloody weeks....
and a REALLY HUGE hollah to Lisa at sixapart for kicking arse and combing through the code to figure out what the heck was going wrong...
that said.... it is with extreme pleasure, my wee little chinchillas, that I am now announcing....
MY COMMENTS ARE BACK UP AND RUNNING!!!!
only click submit once - i have to approve them when they go through.... (so it might take a few minutes/etc to post)
and now, the ticket story:
last night, i ordered food from Carrabba's... they have a "Carside Carryout" where you pull up to the curb and they bring your food out to you (outback has it too.)
okay, so i pull up to the curb and i am waiting - there's some cop standing outside there chatting with a waiter (which i later found out was the manager)
so i am sitting there waiting for 10 minutes... no one came over to me... the food apparently wasn't ready yet... and so i sat there... it was a somewhat nice night, so i put the top of the mini down...
and i sat. car running. in neutral.
the manager/waiter goes inside.
some idiot fat guy goes to the policeman "why does she get to park there?" and points to my car.
wtf?
so - jackass is calling me out in from of the cops? i say calmly, "sir, I am waiting for my food. No one has told me not to sit here. besides, i am in my car. Not 'parked'"
the cop now says "Move the car, Ma'am" (all snottilly)
as he is saying this, the waitress comes out to collect my credit card... and says "her food is almost ready"
I say "Excuse me, you have been standing 5 feet from my car for 10 minutes talking with the waiter and never said anything."
Cop: "Move the car"
Me (there's a point): "Sir, it says 'Carside Carryout'"
Cop: "Move the car and WALK"
Me: "Fine!"
and i drove around into the bloody parking lot and parked IN a space.... at which time the waitress comes out with my food and i was signing my receipt... when SPECIAL OFFICER E. RAMOS (badge S65) of Brick stands in front of my car and CALLS MY PLATE INTO THE STATION
ME: "excuse me, sir, but what exactly did i do?"
SPECIAL OFFICER JACKHOLE: "refusal to move your vehicle"
ME: "sir, if you hadn't noticed, you just had to walk 40 feet over to the parking space where i MOVED my car to"
S.O. JACKHOLE RAMOS: "license"
ME: "pardon?"
S.O. JACKHOLE RAMOS: "your license, ma'am"
ME: "you have to be kidding. i suppose you want the registration?"
S.O. JACKHOLE RAMOS: "yes."
ME: "sir, i moved my car - even though you were standing there for ten......"
HE EFFING FRIGGING WALKS AWAY BACK 40 feet to his EFFING "special" COP CAR....and then proceeds to drive over and park in front of my mini - blocking me in...
oh hell no he didn't...
yes. yes. he did. ---- now, not for nothing, i have the utmost respect for the police, but FUCK YOU, RAMOS (which, by the way, maybe it didn't help me when 10 minutes later i pronounced his name wrong 3 times on purpose. ass.)
so - Schmuckhead is in his car... sneering at me (try viagra or surgery next time you bald headed prick... )
then after 10 minutes (*my food is cold and i am PMSing by the way) he gets out and hands me a ticket that reads "Fire Zone"
and then he says "TRY to fight it."
i say: "What is your badge number?"
S.O. JH E. RAMOS: "you can read"
and then he WALKS AWAY..... dude, you are a frigging special officer in bricktown nj... do NOT get all snooty with me you stick up your ass napolean complex bald son of a bitch.*
(*i didn't sayyyy that, merely thought it)
so.... I GET OUT OF MY CAR. go over to where he's hovering in his and say:
"what is your badge number, sir?"
S.O. JACKHOLE: "read the ticket"
i hold it up to him and say: "Show me where your badge number is.... SPECIAL OFFICER RAMOS"
and he points to some illegible scratch on the ticket... and i say "THANK YOU SPECIAL OFFICER" and walk over to the restaurant.
where i spoke with the manager --- who, by the way, was really nice and said "the guy is a jerk. give me a call tomorrow after you find out how much it is, and the restaurant will pay your ticket"
okay... nice... the thing is, the frigging cop is wrong. i am not sure if i want to pay it.... or have Carrabba's pay it...
maybe i will have them pay it and i will write a scathing letter to the Asbury Park Press about this jerk....
so later that evening - i spoke with a friend of mine whose brother is a cop in brick... his brother said the ticket was gonna be $230....
pardon?
anyway, this morning i called the municipal court to get the official price and it's only $46....
still.... i am livid. i had MOVED my car - never said i wasn't going to... and he frigging comes over to the PARKING SPACE that i MOVED to and writes me up?
bullshit.
bullshit, SPECIAL OFFICER E. RAMOS of BRICK... bullshit.
