I recently found out the hard way that a police officer can “just run your plates”.  Let me explain.  I was trying to have a nice pizza/movie night with my fiance, which started out good.  As you can see by the title, it wasn’t good the whole night.

We wanted to try a veggie type pizza.  We had some movies saved on our DVR system that we have been waiting to watch for about one month, so this night was going to be perfect.  All I had to do was get some pizza and nachos and we would be all set. 

Because I live in a smaller city, the closest Pizza Hut is about 5 miles away and does NOT deliver to our area.  With that thorn in my side, I called them up and decided to place an order to pick up.  Ready in 20 minutes, I was getting ready to rev up the blazer and take off to pick up our pizza.  With my fiance excited for pizza/movie night, I wanted to make it as fun and perfect as possible.

Quick Side Note Time

I think that is important that you know that I have high risk insurance.  My poor driving record from the time I was 18 until 24ish, has rendered it impossible to not have insurance on any vehicle until 2009.  Also, I must pay insurance every month and if a payment is missed, within 10 days of the due date, my license can be suspended by the DMV.  At this point I have until the 17th of the month to pay.

On with the story.  So, I am headed to the Pizza Hut without incident, not speeding (cause it wastes gas), with my seat belt on like usual.  When I get there, the pizza is done, hot and freash, BONUS!  Pay for the pizza and I am out the door.  Back in the truck I am buckled up and ready to head home for a nice night with my lovely love.

As I pull out of the parking lot, I notice a police officer behind me.  I think nothing of it, because I am not speeding, deviating from the lane or anything else for that matter.  I am in a 4 lane divided road heading home.  I legally pass a slow moving truck of some sort and get back into the left lane to make my right turn coming up.  I notice the police officer fall back and breathe of sigh of relief (don’t ask me why).

As I make a right turn and continue home, I notice the officer again, weird.  He follows me for about 3 blocks and then, BOOM, the lights are on!  I am thinking “wtf, you bastard, you just ran my plates?”, but what does he know that I do not?  Well, it turns out that my license is suspended due to none payment on my insurance.  I tried to tell the police officer that I had until the 17th to pay and he said that if my paperwork stated that, the ticket would be void, but for now, here is your $109 citation.

What a bummer, I have been around and around with my insurance agent over this month to month junk and now I might have mis-read the paperwork.  Whatever!  Now my night is crappy and I just want to get home to enjoy my $120 pizza and a movie.

As you can see, I have to pay the fine before the 11th of December, which is sort of a problem.  My hours are cut at work and my fiance (who works casually) has also had a reduction.  I am going to try and gather any resources I have to get this paid.  If you think that police officers cannot just “run your plates”, think again and please consider donating.

Thanks!

Looks like our friends over at VistaPrint are at it again.  With their newest offer of Christmas Photo Cards, they have given you so many reasons to use their services online.  Making your own shirts, business card and brochures is just the beginning.

With the holidays right around the corner, you might want to take a look at what they offer.  You have options to spruce up your Christmas cards this year.  With a quick look at the website you can see that you have 4-6 nice options to choose from, including photo folded cards, 4×8 cards and holiday collage cards.  All but one of the options is under $10, so it’s a real savings to you this Christmas.  Most of the Christmas related products look to be about 50% off, so you can save even more this year.

On the website you can:

• easy to design and order
• Choose from hundreds of designs
• Create in minutes and receive in as few as 3 days

I have been using VistaPrint for some time now.  They always have great deals on magnets, business cards, stationery, rubber stamps and labels.  And if you buy from them often you will get offers in your email box with free shipping or even free products and logo designs.

I am not real sure how well I am going to do this week, but after missing the Thursday pick last week and still getting 10 right, I would like to keep my momentum going.  If I wouldn’t have missed that pick I might have been in a tie breaker for first place week 10.  Oh well, lesson learnt.

I see a couple of spreads that might be tough for the favored teams to meet, but I have been surprised before, that’s for sure.  With point spreads of 10.5 or even 14, it starts to get tougher to pick against the spread.  I really enjoy picking winners when the point spreads are like 3 or 6.5, but when they get into the double digits, you just never know what to expect.

I usually pick against Green Bay, too, because they screw me over all the time but we’ll see what happens this week.  Good luck!

Everyone is having hard time making ends meet and if you are one of the lucky ones that get to worry about paying for expensive eyeglasses, then you are in luck with ZenniOptical.com.  Glasses can become very expensive, especially if you want a specific brand or even a nice scratch resistant lens.  Upwards of $400 is nothing out of the ordinary when it comes to paying for glasses and frames.

I have posted about ZenniOptical in the past and I will keep posting until more people see the reality of saving money on prescription glasses.  Even our pal Clark Howard endorses this company.  And if you do not know who he is, Clark is all about saving his listeners money.

As you can see by the image above, they have some nice styles on the site.  Available in just about every color and frame style you can think of, as well as, some custom frames.  I think the secret to the low prices is the fact that they sell their own frames right to the customer, no middleman!  When I went through the process of picking my frames and the lenses that I wanted, I was still looking at getting new glasses for under $100.

When you are looking for your next pair of eyeglasses, don’t forget to check out ZenniOptical.com.