Well, the inevitable happened yesterday. I got pulled over by Arlington PD. It was my first time interacting with an officer since I got my CHL. It actually turned out to be the best interaction I've ever had with an officer. He pulled me over and I immediately handed him my DL and CHL license. He asked if I was carrying and I told him yes. The very next comment he said was, "Well, what do you carry?" Awesome, I love talking guns anytime I get the chance. We proceeded to talk guns for the next 20 minutes. It was awesome. He was the friendliest cop I have ever came in contact with. The only down side is when the conversation was over, he handed me a ticket. Bummer :(
Although I'm not going to say I didn't deserve it. I guess having your inspection out since October of 2012 is not OK. I really didn't even realize it. In my own defense...I am a hard core biker and ride my motorcycle literally every day so my car inspection completely slipped my mind. But since my bike is down with a coolant leak and my wife's car is leaking gas...We had to take mine. And since my wife and I work at the same place, we usually always take her car to work (Better gas mileage). My car sees the light of day maybe twice a month and that's to usually to pull it out of the garage and wash it. Yesterday happened to be one of those days that I had to drive it. So I learned a good hard $140 dollar lesson yesterday. But as I drove away I couldn't help but be happy about the interaction in general.
Lesson learned. And guess what's on my agenda for this weekend??? Yup, inspection!!!
Kudos Arlington PD. You've got one hell of a good officer on your force.
