Stupid LA traffic fines on demand: FLP edition
I think almost everyone I've made out with since moving to LA (and yes, that includes the groupie, but just as a party trick) has gotten a ticket for not having a front license plate.
I got California plates in August of 2003. For some reason there must have been holes already drilled in one of the plates and not the other because I put the back one on immediately and two different guys I dated that fall offered to drill holes in the other one so I could mount it. As it turned out, I stopped seeing the first one in October before that could happen and the license plate ended up being a POW in the second's apartment well into the Spring, long after I stopped hanging out there (eventually I decided to forget the guys and bought my own drill, which could be whole other entry in itself. . . ). So I remind this guy a couple of times during the winter that I want my license plate back, even if his severe lethargy and pot smoking habit prevented him from drilling the required holes. He always said that someone was borrowing his drill, but he would do it.
It gets to be April. I pick up my aunt and uncle from LAX on their way back from Fiji. I park my car in the garage for about 7 minutes. When I return I have a $27 ticket for not having the front plate. This prompts a curt email to the ex in question about how I needed my license plate RIGHT THEN because it was COSTING ME MONEY!!! I was kind of pissed at him for never having done it (and one would've thought he could've apologized for taking so long, at the very least), but more pissed at myself for not demanding that he give it back long before. I did get some satisfaction though when tried to call me to coordinate the handoff and realized I had changed my number.
Someone I was making out with this summer had also been ticketed for not having a front license plate. He didn't care though because he assumed that he'll spend less on front license plate tickets than he would if he were to have one and be photographed in an intersection for running a red light (which did happen to one of my friends and it cost her around $400 in the end).
This morning I slept in and went for a run before school. I saw Calista Flockhart. She was suprisingly adult-sized.
I got California plates in August of 2003. For some reason there must have been holes already drilled in one of the plates and not the other because I put the back one on immediately and two different guys I dated that fall offered to drill holes in the other one so I could mount it. As it turned out, I stopped seeing the first one in October before that could happen and the license plate ended up being a POW in the second's apartment well into the Spring, long after I stopped hanging out there (eventually I decided to forget the guys and bought my own drill, which could be whole other entry in itself. . . ). So I remind this guy a couple of times during the winter that I want my license plate back, even if his severe lethargy and pot smoking habit prevented him from drilling the required holes. He always said that someone was borrowing his drill, but he would do it.
It gets to be April. I pick up my aunt and uncle from LAX on their way back from Fiji. I park my car in the garage for about 7 minutes. When I return I have a $27 ticket for not having the front plate. This prompts a curt email to the ex in question about how I needed my license plate RIGHT THEN because it was COSTING ME MONEY!!! I was kind of pissed at him for never having done it (and one would've thought he could've apologized for taking so long, at the very least), but more pissed at myself for not demanding that he give it back long before. I did get some satisfaction though when tried to call me to coordinate the handoff and realized I had changed my number.
Someone I was making out with this summer had also been ticketed for not having a front license plate. He didn't care though because he assumed that he'll spend less on front license plate tickets than he would if he were to have one and be photographed in an intersection for running a red light (which did happen to one of my friends and it cost her around $400 in the end).
This morning I slept in and went for a run before school. I saw Calista Flockhart. She was suprisingly adult-sized.
posted by kelly at 8:49 PM
3 Comments:
It was good that you changed your plates, because I remember that my brother kept his Texas plates for quite sometime while he was at Stanford; and for him it just seemed as though Californian's are just so much more rude to you when they know you are from Texas.
I love your idea. First I am going to see if I can hunt down that documentary, and second I'll definitely be on constant lookout for possible dates, and I won't film them, but I have no problems taking pictures.
My sister got pulled over in Texas for no front plate. This was before she even had her license. Lucky for her she got off with a warning.
All of you Californians should move to Georgia. No front plate required here. In fact, you can use your Texas plate in the front if you want. How crazy is that?
an oasis of decency amidst all my car hell: i went to the west hollywood sheriff's station on monday and i told the nice young policelady at the desk that i couldn't reaffix my license plate but i am bringing my car to get repaired on friday. so she signed off on my ticket. yay..
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