I Was Right

I told you I don't speed when I'm on my bike. And I was right.

The police officer who gave me the traffic ticket tried to call me on Tuesday but I was sick and couldn't go to the office. So he left me a couple of messages.

On the morning when I got back to the office, there were 13 missed calls. Two of them were from my wife who tried calling me at home but dialled my office instead. Two calls were work related. And the rest were from a number I didn't know.

And there were 4 messages. 2 were work related. When I retrieved the first of the non-work related, it sounded scratchy. Like mumbling. All I heard was the word, Mr Hamid (my surname) and ticket. My first thought went to the raffle ticket I got when I bought a fan at Master's. But then I remembered I never win anything. So I retrieved the last message. The voice on the message said, "Ahem! Mr Hamid, this is Officer "Toot", (name withheld on account of me not wanting any trouble with the police) calling in reference to your ticket. Please give me a call at xxx-xxxx."

Before I could call him back, the phone rang and it was the officer. He told me that there was another black coloured bike on that stretch of road that did the 71 kmh. The bike had made a turn before the junction where the officer was waiting and there I was, happily moving at a crawl, getting pulled over for a speeding charge.

I admit, if I were not sick that day, I would've said bad things to the officer. But, lucky for me, I wasn't in the mood to tell people off. So I said, "Ok. That's fine. So can you send me an email and write down what you just said?" He said he couldn't because he was not near a computer. But he told me to send an email to him. He gave me his email address.

This is not the end of the story but this is where I tell the moral of the crap I just told you. Don't let anyone treat you as guilty if you know you're innocent. It almost happened to me. I almost went to the police station to pay for the ticket. Good thing I got sick though. If you didn't do the crime, don't take the blame. Nuff said.