Safa means tranquil, serene, calm…I try

My 6-year told me I should have a 3rd child so someone else can scratch my back for a change! I am about to put him O-U-T!!!

I mean, who does this kid think he is? After the miracle of childbirth and that whole unconditional love thing, doesn’t he know that resident back scratcher, remote finder, and cup reacher are THE #1 reasons that he even lives with me????

I need to take him out of that fancy private school….what ideas they must be putting in his head.

Friday night I was driving from my kid sister’s house in SoufEast DC. I was enjoying the fact that the kids were spending the night and I could go to S.tarbucks and just have a night of peace and quiet. I’m driving along Minnesota Ave. and out of nowhere loud police sirens and lights are on my tail! I quickly move to the side to let the car go past only to see that they were in pursuit of me. I sit there trying to figure out what I did..run a light, speed, etc?? No, not that I could recall. I honestly hadn’t driven long enough to gain any real momentum.

Anyway, while Officer Friendly is telling why I was pulled over, his sidekick is highbeaming a flashlight through the passenger side window… Why did they pull me over??? Oh, but wait, along with that car, ANOTHER cop car pulls behind that one! So I have two cop cars with flashing lights and about 4 cops on the scene.

I had a headlight out. No really, that was it. I have fog lights at the bottom that were on, plus the right head light. Anyway ok, I guess technically that’s probable cause. I hand over my documents while they go back to run my info….it took a loooooong time. I know that they checked if I had a criminal record, outstanding warrants, unpaid tickets or overdue library books in all 50 states, Antiqua and El Salvador !

He came back to say that I wasn’t getting a ticket or anything just a warning and some extra paperwork for him. He was nice with an undercurrent of pissed that he wasn’t going to be able to use that new choke hold technique he learned earlier that week. How did my evening end you ask?

Well, after being gawked at by the fine residents of the Pennsylvania and Minnesota Ave. corridor while sitting in my vehicle, I am sad to say that I did not make it back to VA in time to enjoy a chai latte at my neighborhood Star.bucks. Instead I enjoyed settled for flavored coffee from the new line of Mc.Donald’s hot cafe beverages…it actually wasn’t that bad. But enjoying my new book under the harsh florescent asphalt lot of Mi.ckey Ds can’t possibly compare to sitting in a soft winged back chair at my Starb.ucks.