MY FIRST TICKET EVER!

I just got my first ticket EVER this week. Not for speeding, not for running a stop sign or a red light, not for switching lanes in the middle of the inersection. NOPE not for any of the good stuff. Instead my 600.00 (THAT'S RIGHT - 600 DOLLARS) ticket came from expired tags. WHAT?!?!?!? Who looks at their tags? Isn't something suppose to come in the mail from the DMV? Well according to the Police officer, for the last part of 2007 the DMV did not send out notices for this, so he let me know not to feel bad because he is writing tons of tickets for this. OH YES, that makes me feel tons better.

When he pulled me over and walked up to the window the first question he asked me was, "Do you know why I pulled you over?" To which my response was, "If I knew why you pulled me over I probably wouldn't have this look on my face." Propbably the wrong answer because he asked me to step out of my car after that. AHHHHHHHHH! I thought I was going to get cuffed or something, because on the show COPS when they ask them to step out of the car, you know they are getting cuffed. So after I am out of the car he asked me if I knew my tags were expired to which I replied, "If I did, the same look wouldn't be on my face."

OH to make matters worse I could not find my insurance card! Well actually the boys had ripped it and I took it out of my car the week before. GREAT TIMING!

So now I have a court date of January 24th. GOODNESS! I don't understand why they can not just say HEY YOUR TAGS ARE EXPIRED, GO GET NEW ONES. What is the purpose of tags anyways? Why do we have to get tags? We already register our cars, get insurance, have drivers licenses. WHAT IS THE TAGS PURPOSE?!?!?! Some one answer me that.

AND TELL ME IF THIS MAKES SENSE? THe next day my friend Jenny got pulled over for speeding in a school zone and she only got a 125.00 ticket. NO SENSE!!!