Thursday, September 1, 2011

Friendly Oregon Welcome

Our vacation was uneventful until the 2nd day. An Oregon Highway Patrolman noticed our out of state license plates and wanted to give us an official welcome to the state of Oregon. He also told Mike that he needed to slow down and have a front license plate. We have been driving the car like this for 3 yrs and no one cared, oh well. And as far as speeding. The speed limit was 55. I'm not sure that our cruise control will even set at that slow. He just gave Mike a warning. Then we were in Lebanon looking for Lance's home and the Linn County Sheriff wanted to give Mike an official welcome to Linn County. I've never seen such friendly officers before. I thought he was going to help us find Lance, but after we stopped, we saw Lance and his family about 2 houses away, watching the whole thing. It seems that as we were looking for their apartment, Mike stopped at a stop sign and then crossed the street. Mike told me that he pulled out in front of a car, but he didn't tell me that it was a sheriff's car. He got off with another warning. I let Mike drive back to Lance's and then the was grounded for the rest of the day.

After that, every time the boys saw a police car, they would say, "They are looking for grandpa."

2 comments:

TRISH said...

ROLF THAT IS TOO FUNNY!!! Poor Mike

The Simmons Bunch said...

They still say it! We had a cop come to our apt. complex yesterday and the first thing they said when they saw it was "look out Grandpa they're trying to find you!" HAHAHA