I'm becoming sneaky these days  

Cynthiann! I'll be! Well I am glad you got away with it, but I'd surely have spilled my guts and not been able to fib!

Oh gosh, I never would have pulled it off in a million years. Good for you!

hi cynthiann wow you do have a way with getting out of
something, congratulations on not getting a fine. Sugar
and honey always work better than sour and vinegar in
bamboozling a police officer. I bet you are a good
bargainer too. I wish I was, lol I would get the ticket
for sure as my face shows it immediately if I tell a lie
or just stretch the truth a bit.

Hi Cynthiann, I'm glad your cunning plan worked and you got away without the fine. At the last stop though you were so close to the tax office and your intent to pay so obvious that I'm sure you could have persuaded the nice policeman, if he'd seen the offending paper, to escort you in and ask for urgent attention for you.

4 sets of armed police to cross on one journey is a lot, what is their actual purpose in stopping cars? The local police here do stop cars and check papers but they are looking for illegals usually. When I first moved here I was stopped several times and played the boredom game with them of I can sit here longer than you can stand there pretending not to understand a word of Greek. They know me now and wave me by but I am quite prepared to go into not understanding a word again whenever necessary. It's either that or start driving round with my papers which I never do.

I usually never get away with anything if a policeman is around but my wife seems to be able to most of the time. Once a policeman stopped me because I was coming into town after dark in my truck. They looked all over for something so I figured they were looking for drugs or a animal I might have killed illegally. They were so intent on that that they didn't notice my tags had expired. I didn't know they had either until my wife found out when she went to get new tags and discovered she had never gotten any the year before. It probably was a good thing I didn't know because I would have had guilt written all over my face.

cynthiann,

I'd like to see a better good of you here and your compliments were just timely. I feel that a lot of times public servants are always bearing the brunts when things don't go well and rarely complimented when they have done a good job.

I have always tried to compliment good services and courtesies without fail as they are human after all. Such compliments will just encourage them and make their day as you can see that satisfied looks and brightness on their faces. As for me, I feel happy as they are, too.

Anyway, I am glad things worked out well at your end, escaping a hefty fine as well. Quite a feat, I must say.

Wow! That was close!

You also just scared me as I remenberd receiving some renewal papers some time ago and ran to check the deadline buit it is Dec 9 so I'm still ok.

Good for you! I can't imagine having to pay that much for forgetting something like that. Yikes!

Hehehehehee, you surely can act!!! Even the toughest and crudest of criminals need years of practice to master something like that.

Good for you that you got out, but I really can stop the chuckle coming back to me. Incredible incident so well described. It really made me to race down the sentences.

Hmmmm My extraordinary friend with some extraordinary talents.

Haha! Your story goes on like a suspensful drama. Glad you made it out ok without a fine.
I once was stopped for a non-functioning headlight in one of the interstate highways here. I just played dumb. I even helped out the police officer tap out the front of the car because he thought 'it might just be loose'. Of course, I knew all along that the bulb needed to be changed.