Thanks svsg, I'll try.

Afs! How grounded in humanity you are. How far from vanity you are. How much, I feel, you understand my plight.

Heard from Lav? Gosh do I miss her. And you.

We should probably start asking questions when the likes of Lav, 'Zia, JustMe and Afs stop posting. Talk about political alienation.

Oh dear one, don't include me with likes of such angels!

I'm as vain as a being can be; and the only thing that fairly and not entirely holds back my vanity is the snake of my fastidious nature; while it accuses others liberally, it's not wholly blind to my own faults.

I've not been fortunate enough to hear from Lavinia for a long time, though I've exchanged a few emails with JustMe. I'd be extremely happy to hear from you as well, my ID at yahoo is the same as here.

Remember me??

Yes, sir!

Life lesson: never drive with a headlight out and a bag of marijuana in your pocket.

Ah, did you get pulled over? My headlight is out in my car, and I've been driving around with my brights on, just so it looks like I have 2 functioning headlights. I'm paranoid as hell driving around while I'm holding. But I figure I'll get pulled over sooner driving with one headlight, rather than the brights.

I got a parking ticket last night. I'm pissed. No one else gets parking tickets when they park where I parked. But noooooooo.

Was it a disabled patch?

Maybe the Col. is getting you one for Christmas!

Its to cold today,i wish it was summer

I'd settle for Spring right about now.

Me to

It's a heatwave here right now! We reached 40 degrees today!

It's suppose to get up to '35 today and tomorrow the high will be '29.

I sure do miss my wood stove. I wish I could've brought it with me when I moved from VA.

Whats the weather like in NY at the minute,i went last year in November and it froze my arse off!!

This is the calm before the storm. We're supposed to get 8-12 inches of snow starting late-Saturday night through Sunday afternoon. The NFL games in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, New England and perhaps the late game in New York should be fun to watch.

NYC is just gonna get some rain outta this.

Maybe we'll have a white Christmas.

Seems like the whole world is freezing just now....
Whatever happened to global warming?

Well, here's how it went... I'm a bit exhausted right now, so it won't be the most articulate account, but basically, I have a friend who smokes now and again, but is just now getting into the whole drug-culture thing, or whatever the fuck I'm supposed to call it. So, it was myself and two friends. The one friend was tripping on Robotussin, me and the other guy just smoked; to be honest, Robotussin is a pretty dirty drug... It's a good introductory to psychedelic drugs, I guess (I'm not promoting anything to anyone, but anyone who moves straight to mushrooms or acid is bound to get completely destroyed).

So, it was his car, but we weren't about to let him drive it, and he knew it. So, when the idea to go check out the used record store came up, the third friend offered to drive. So, we get there, we're fine, we leave, we're fine. What we did not know, was that at some point, a headlight went out. So, of course we were pulled over. At first, we were sure we were fucked, but when we found out that all it was was a dead headlight, a sense of relief rushed through my body. I was certain we'd be good, especially as the driver and I had long since come down (marijuana's effects generally only last an hour... Robotussin is basically eight hours of confusion, so the third guy had no idea what was going on).

But, when the cop found out that the car's owner was tagging along in the passenger seat, suspicions began to arise, and my friend was asked to step out of the vehicle. Then they engaged in a conversation that roughly went like this:

Officer: "So, what's going on? Why's your friend driving your car?"
Friend: "Well, officer, to be honest... Well... I have mono. I'm very sick, and very tired."

At this point, my friend had, in attempt to maintain his balance on the parking lot we were pulled into, which was completely iced over, placed his hand on the officer's shoulder.

Officer: "Don't touch me."
Friend: *removes hand* "I'm sorry, officer."
O: "Well, do you know why I pulled you out of the car?"
F: "No, officer, I don't."
O: "Well, your pupils are huge, and your eyes are bleeding."
F: *Anxiously clutches eyes* "My eyes are bleeding!?"
O: "No, no... I mean, they're all bloodshot."
F: *sounding relieved* "Officer, you can't scare me like that."
O: "Well, look, did you have anything to drink tonight?[/b]
F: "No, officer"
O: "Did you smoke any marijuana? You know, weed?"
F: "No."
O: "Did you take any prescription drugs other than your mono medication?"
F: "Huh? I don't have mono."
O: "You just said you had mono."
F: "...It got better."

At this point, he was searched, and the cop found nothing. Then I was asked out of the car, and after some questions about marijuana, the driver was asked out of the car, and the officer asked "Where's the weed?" in a manner as to suggest we ratted him out... And, so, my friend simply bent over, pulled a bag out of his Converse high-tops, and handed it over. He was then frisked, and I was instructed to empty my pockets of anything incriminating, because if I had anything on me when it was my turn to be frisked, I would be arrested. So, I took a pipe out, and put it on the trunk of the car, to which the officer responded, "What the hell am I going to do with this? Give it to my kids?" Then I was frisked, and the guy who was driving the car told me I should "take off my shoes and jacket." I didn't want to argue, so I did it, and the officer turned and said, "Put your god damn jacket back on, it's like ten fucking degrees out."

Anyway, long story short, the car was searched while we sat on the hood, I was told to crush the bag with my foot, and then my friend was issued a ticket for driving with a headlight out. This isn't the first time someone from my circle has been busted and let off, so I'd say I've found most cops realize that a drug charge pretty much eliminates any hope that you should get into a respectable college and have anything of a future, and so, if you're under 18, they'll pretty much go easy on you, unless you do something completely fucked up.

Am I embarrassed? Not at all. Why should I be? I've got a great story under my belt. I'm only slightly upset that my pipe is now sitting in an evidence room somewhere, as it was my first piece, but I guess I'll just have to treat myself to a new one as a Christmas present to moi.

Well, have you been naughty, or nice to the Col.?

Possesion of marijuana won't necessarily bar you from a decent college. Also, if it did, most cops wouldn't be concerned about that. I'm kind of surprised he didn't write you up for paraphernalia. Also, you or your friend shouldn't have consented to be frisked or had the car searched. There didn't seem to be any exigent circumstances to perform a warrantless search.

What puzzles me is that the officer went to such lengths to conduct a search, but not bother to follow up with citations pursuant to the search. He must have been thinking he was going to find something bigger. Or maybe he was just trying to harrass a couple of numb skull kids...no offense.

None taken. I do plenty of stupid things, and why the hell shouldn't I? It's part of growing up. Well, I'm half kidding, but you know what I mean.

Really, I don't know what the cop was thinking. I'm going to guess and say he was probably just upset because he probably thought that my friend had lied to him... I mean, it never came out in the open that he had taken an excessive dosage of cough medication, and so when he had told him that he hadn't drank, smoked, or taken any prescription medications (which was true), and then found marijuana on us, he obviously must've assumed that he smoked some of it.

Also, there was only enough weed left for about one, maybe two, bowls left. More like one; two would've been pushing it. So, I don't know, if we had had more on us at the time, maybe he would've done something. This is my first time having a particularly substantial run-in with the police on any sort of drug offenses, but I know kids who've been in worse scenario's, and still got off. Mind you this is a fairly small community, of only about 40,000 people, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it.

But either way, a drug offense is not something I want on my record at this point in my life.

Both!!

Absolutely. Actually at no point do you want it. Good luck.

Haha.. that reminded me of Holy Grail "She turned me into a newt!" ".. a newt?" "... I got better"

Anywho, that fucking sucks, man. He took your piece? That was Chief Muhamac or something like that, right? Can't really remember the whole name. But yeah, you're definitely a lucky bastard. I'm guessing he let you go because basically all you had was a dimebag, right? He was probably hoping for more. Greedy bastard.

What's "What the hell am I going to do with this? Give it to my kids?" supposed to mean? He sounds dirty to me.

Can't believe you got to sit on the hood of the car while he searched though. When my ex's car got searched while I was in it, I had to be put in cuffs (behind my back) and sit in the front seat of the cop car, while the ex sat in cuffs in the backseat. Morgantown area cops are the WORST.. Though he did let us go that night without so much as a citation, and he had about 4 different things he could have charged us with.

Yeah... Chief Mohommak. It was, bulky, rounded, very deep, purple, and reminded me of a Native American chief.

I don't even know if we had a dime left. It was pretty much a single bowl-pack of shake.

But, I think most cops are generally major douche bags, because they have to assort the authority they have to the deepest extent, no matter how minor the offense, and that's pretty fucking childish. I love the standard cop tone that they always use on you, even if you haven't done anything wrong. It's just an immature mindset along the lines of "I can treat you like shit, and you can't do anything about it."

This is a mini rant about printers. 3 Months ago the Dell program for my printer says "An ink cartridge is below minimum levels", therefore I had to buy new cartridges. Everytime since then I've had to click "ok" to print anything. That was 3 months ago and I'm still using the cartridges that are supposedly below minimum levels. I'm sitting here now printing out over 120 pages and STILL no problems, just seems like a scam to me. I'm wondering how much ink I actually threw out thinking it was basically empty and not worth saving!

Nothing mini about that rant!

Sometimes the sensors get dirty and give false readings. Did you try removing the cartridge and reinserting it?

I didn't try or even think of that. I'm going to do that after I print all of this and see what happens.