Originally Posted By jlin714 I confess I can't believe I'm saying this, but I love the Irvine Police department! Sure, I've said some really rude things when I was getting pulled over for speeding (several times), or when I was a teenager and a policeman was trying to pin us down as truants, or when I was out past the city curfew and trying to run away from the policemen, but really. I LOVE THE IRVINE POLICE! Yesterday after dinner, my family and I went back to the car to find that two motorcycles (a ducati one of them) had parked in the striped area adjacent to her handicapped space, making it almost impossible for her to get into her car. Needless to say, I was pretty peeved. My sister called the non-emergency police line and was put on hold, but while she was on hold the OWNERS of the motorcycles came out, talking loudly and strapping on their back supports or whatever those things are. I couldn't contain myself and just busted out with "excuse me, are these your motorcycles? Do you realize that you parked in a handicapped zone? Do you realize the kind of ticket you would receive parking here?" The guy replied with a nonchalant, "yes, I realize it's handicapped." and (what really really steamed me) "so fine, give me a ticket. I don't care." I was supremely peeved at this point, this guy was rude, arrogant, and totally didn't care. To top it off, when my dad tried so say something, the guy cut him off and said, "look, I don't care. I'll get out of the way now." At this point, my mom's just telling us to get in the car and go, so we listen to her, and my other sister's still on hold. The two guys on the motorcycles take off. Little do they know I got their plate numbers! I get home, find the email for the Commander of the Police Department (looking down the list, I just figured "Why write to a Sergeant? Let's just write to the top dog.") and wrote a nicely worded email including the license plates and suggesting that if they can't issue a ticket, a nice scolding will do fine. I get an email back today from the commander stating that they ran checks on the plates, found the addresses of where the fools lived, and paid them personal uniformed visits to let them know that their behaviour will not be tolerated and that their vehicles are now on a 'watch list.' YAY! I love the police! I promptly wrote a thank you letter back and an effusive letter to the City Council. I now know that I must date a police officer sometime in my life.
Originally Posted By Labuda I confess YAY for you, jlin! I also confess that I very much hope tapdancemom is felling better this morning! Finally, I confess I MUST gety to packing today - leaving for WDW in 5 days!!!!
Originally Posted By trailsend hmmmmm ~ jlin714 ~ a police officer ~ niiice! Hope you get to! And kudos for standing up to people who are rude!!!!!!
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka I confess that this might be the beginning of the end for my 94 year old Grandmother. She fell on Friday and has pneumonia and is in the hospital. I confess that I love her very much and will desperately miss her wonderful, kind heart. However, she is in constant pain, she's been ill since early this winter, and she is just ready to leave this earth. All of her siblings (and there were a lot of them) are gone, her cousins are gone and my Grandpa died 4 years ago. She's miserable and doesn't really want to be here anymore. (Yet, even in her pain, she has a better attitude than most young, healthy people.) Her sons, my uncles, treat her like she's a child. My father would rather go hunting than visit her (he's a selfish you-know-what). I think at 94, almost 95, years old, you should be able to die in peace wherever you want to die! She worked all of her life, either on a farm or in the bakery she owned with my Grandfather. Plus, in her free time she raised 4 boys and attended church DAILY. I confess that I am very sad for the selfish part of me who won't get to see her again, but I pray she goes to a better place where she can be reunited with her loved ones. I KNOW that I did all I could for her and spent as much time w/her as I could. She knows that I love her very much and I know the same about her. Really can't ask for more.
Originally Posted By trailsend ((((mele)))) How blessed for you to have such a wonderful grandmother!!
Originally Posted By pennyring I confess {{{hugs}}} for tapdancemom and mele. I confess Haw Haw to the cycle dudes, jlin! That's awesome!! I confess, thanks for the Hilda advice everyone! Your concerns were my concerns exactly. I couldn't believe they were expecting her to make this 17 hour all day trip from North of Seattle to South of Portland -- totally ridiculous. I emailed all my concerns to my mom. Rather than comment on whether or not she felt I was making valid points, she just replied and said not to worry, she'd figure something else out. I really can not imagine Hilda attending this wedding -- out of state -- and traveling all on the same day! My goodness, what if we kill her?!?!!? What kind of friends-of-the-family would that make us??? I confess she attended my brother's engagement party at a local park, and had a hard time walking from the parking lot to the picnic shelter! I confess I sometimes wonder how it happens that I'm the only family member who has any common sense.
Originally Posted By wendebird I confess we ordered pizza for my dd's birthday. I ordered 1 of each of the following: extra cheese, pepperoni, sausage & hawaiian. Wouldn't you know, the only pizza that was left over was THE HAWAIIAN!! It's some sort of cruel, cruel joke. I'm not really sure how, but I'm sure Blacksheep Uncle had something to do with it!
Originally Posted By friendofdd I confess I love hawaiian pizza. But, what does that mean? I also love Calif. Pizza Kitchen pizza with pears and glazed onions.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost I confess that pineapples and pizza do not belong together, here or on any other planet.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 I confess I could kill our staff in Atlanta this morning. I didn't go to bed till 12:30am, I had a 6am conference meeting this morning, I got here at 5:15am to read in my email that the meeting is cancelled! Ugh, I'm so tired, I could have used that extra 1.5 hours sleep this week!
Originally Posted By trailsend ^^^I wondered why you were tickeling the mind so early today. If I knew where your staff was here in Atlanta, I confess I would go and fuss at them. I confess I hope you get a nap today.
Originally Posted By Blacksheep Uncle I confess it was nice of the people at Wendebirds party to save the best pizza for her....
Originally Posted By Tiggirl I confess I have a nasty bruise on my lower back and the muscles in my back are really sore and I have NO idea what I might have done to injure myself. ~Beth
Originally Posted By smedley I confess I don't want to know what you might have done tiggirl ;0 I confess that I do however hope that it gets better very soon. Recommend laying in a hot bath.
Originally Posted By Labuda I confess that one of these years, it will finally stick in my brain taht trailsend is in Georgia and not here in Texas.
