Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day!

Katherine had a ground water festival which I thought was at the Moody Park. I showed up at almost 9am, but no one was there. I felt terrible because I missed Katherine's field trip! I thought that meeting her for lunch at 11am would make up for missing the field trip. When I got to the school, the woman walking out of the office in the back asked who I was here to eat lunch with. I told her Katherine Hopper. She said that the fourth grade was at the ground water festival in Pell City and would probably be there for another hour! What! I thought I missed it! So I hurry (with Jeffery) to get in the van and see if we can get to Pell City before they leave. Last year they came back to the school to eat their sack lunches. I was hoping that this year they wouldn't.

Well, as I'm tearing down the road I see a police officer heading toward me. Sure enough he turns around with his blue lights flashing. Oh, NO! Now not only am I going to miss Katherine AGAIN, but I'm going to get a ticket to boot! I slow down in hopes that he will pass me. NOPE! Once I pull over, I get out my drivers license, insurance card and registration so maybe this will go faster. The officer asks me why I'm driving 61 in a 45! Wow, I was going fast. I explained, and he said, "So then me writing you a ticket for 10 minutes won't help you get there in time will it?" I said, "No." He took my license and insurance card and called it in to see if I was some fugitive, felon, drunk, etc. Since that came back clean he said, "If I let you go with just a warning, then I'm not going to have to pull you over tomorrow will I?" I said, "No." Then he said, "Slow down." He handed me back my cards, and I said, "Thank you."

Since that scared the living day lights out of me, I drove the speed limit ALL the way to Pell City! Did you know you have to drive 45 on the interstate because of construction! It took forever, but I didn't get pull over by a state trooper.

ANYWAY, Jeffery and I jump out of the van and quickly walk to some children who have on the same shirt (ground water festival) that Katherine was wearing today. Apparently ALL of the students that came had the same shirt on! We walked all over that church, but no Katherine and no Moody students anywhere. How disappointing! Maybe Katherine will forgive me.