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[ucbfeminista]

I just got a fucking speeding ticket.

The jerk claimed I was doing 50 in a 35 zone, which is ridiculous. I might have been going 40, maybe 45, but with all the potholes I have to dodge on my way to work, at fifty miles per hour my drive would have resembled an amusement park ride instead of a commute

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[us_feminist]

I've gone well over that and I've never been pulled over. I don't know, maybe it's just me. Stupid cop. Get Sam to call him.

[ucbfeminista]

Yeah, well, that might have something to do with the Secret Service escort.

And I'm not asking my husband to use his position to try to influence the DC traffic courts. I'm beating this fucker on my own.

[bluebonnettexan]

Sorry to hear about the ticket and the car. My sister had to give up her 1954 Jaguar OTS when she was six months pregnant with her first son. She's still mad about it. My nephew is nearly seven.

[ucbfeminista]

I refuse to give up my car. Refuse. I'm resigned to temporarily driving something else.

[bluebonnettexan]

She did too. Then again, her car was a little two seater... not so practical now that she has three kids.

A hybrid minivan, prehaps?

[ucbfeminista]

So is mine, and I love it.

So far i'm sticking with Sam's RX400h. I need to buy something for myself, but I just don't have time.

[settlingtheroom]

You realize three seperate people asked me about this, right?

[ucbfeminista]

Press? Why the hell do they still care?

[donutstealer]

Because your husband is a Congressman and a candidate in California's gubernatorial contest?

[ucbfeminista]

Well, there's that. Also because I'm the former White House press secretary and an MSNBC anchor.

[ivyleaguelawboy]

You got pulled over because you were in a Thunderbird, not because of your carbon monoxide emissions. I've never known the DC police to be an especially green bunch.

Glad somebody's going to be getting use out of the car, at least. Maybe someday I'll actually get to, you know, drive it myself.

[ucbfeminista]

Ah, but they don't make a hybrid Thunderbird, so I'm still right, somehow.

Next time you come home, you're driving. Any idea when that will be? I miss you.

[ivyleaguelawboy]

Your logic is a little warped, but I'll go along with it.

Don't hold me to it just yet, but Cole's mumbling about letting me off for good behavior, say, Sunday through Wednesday? How would that work for you?

[ucbfeminista]

Good plan.

God, that sounds incredible, I'm not doing all that well with the distance thing. Tell Cole he's a good man. I've got a meeting I've rescheduled twice already on Tuesday, a doctor's appointment on Monday, but other than that, I'll make it a light week. We should get together with your mom for dinner, too.