Got pulled over for the first time
First of all, my eyes still hurt from sobbing about this all. The stress of today has been immense. I need to word vomit.
I got pulled over for the first time, one street over from my home, for going 50 in a 35. 🤦♀️Its an infamous road for speeding; stick straight, gradual hills, right in the bumcrack of two fields. Normally I drive that road like a saint bc a car of teens fatally crashed on it while I was in highschool, but today there was a lot on my mind. I didn't even notice the cop behind me with his lights on for a GOOD while and I panicked and managed to find a spot to stop. I took off my seat belt 🤦♀️ and then buckled it back in a panic as he got out of his car. The first thing he points out was my seatbelt, but I got that corrected as just me being a dumb girl. For reference, I live in a small town, and I'm a chubby cheeked white girl with glasses... Then he points out the speed and asks for my license and registration.
I have never ONCE set eyes on my registration card.
My dad put it in my glove box when we got it, and since I bought the car before I got my license, I didn't do a lot of hands on stuff for about a year after that... And then I had never gotten pulled over so I knew it was IN there but... Yeah I couldn't find it. So he ran my license. Took forever.I'm probably secretly a criminal 😭 I found my registration. He came back and handed me a pamflet on speeding and a warning, and I blurted out that I'd never been pulled over before as he walked away.
Girl, he said "I know." 😭
But anyway the second he walks away my eyes start heating up and I'm absolutely BAWLING. I dunno if it was just the release of tension or what. Bc I was dry eyed and sober the entire exchange. But I have a flight tomorrow that I haven't packed for, and today has been a mess of stress worrying about making my list and buying last minute travel supplies. Its also my FIRST time flying alone and third time on a plane EVER.. And I'm flying to meet TWO separate online friends that I've never met before... I'm so stressed.. but now I have swollen af eyes, a headache, a probable(?) mark on my record, and cold steak bc I typed this over eating quickly.
The dinner is steaks I hacked off a rib roast, corn I skidded around in the pan after the steak, and yucky steak sauce I microwaved with crushed garlic, hosin sauce, and lots of sugar. For dessert, the last 3 pieces of the bag I stress ate of watermelon licorice.😭👋