The Adventures of Darcey & Watson

Saturday morning a group of friends and I were headed out to work outside in East Texas, putting up hogwire, ridding the land of thorn bushes, mulching the trees, and installing plumbing for more drip lines. It’s about an hour drive from Carrollton, to past Terrell where we were headed and about 2 exits away from where we were supposed to get off, I saw a police car pull up behind me. Uh oh… I know I was speeding, but nowhere near the person right beside me going 80. Why would the police car be behind me?  I had a feeling I was to be pulled over so I just waited for his lights to turn on. As my heart rate skyrocketed, I pulled to the side of the road. “what did I do?”

Officer Bush walked over to our car and asked why I don’t have my license plate on the front of my vehicle. You see, I’m from Pennsylvania. As is my car. So I don’t have a place to put a license plate on the front of my car. Apparently in Texas, you need one on the front and the back of your vehicle. picky picky. I told the officer that my plate is in my trunk (which is was) and he asked why it wasn’t on my car. So I told him it’s because I don’t have a place to put it on the front. So he asked for my license and vehicle registration. He took my license back to his squad car and I saw him on the phone and doing something else in his car. Meanwhile one of my friends suggested we pray that the officer lets me off with a warning instead of a ticket, so we prayed.

When the officer came back He did let me off with a warning, Praise God. And now I have my license plate on the dashboard (hopefully soon to be on the front of my car). I’m thankful the officer was nice and understanding. Of course since we weren’t the only GFA people headed out to east Texas, a few other people saw me get pulled over so that was kinda embarrassing. but I’m really glad I wasn’t alone when it happened. As this was my first time ever getting pulled over, I was grateful to have friends along for the experience.

Source: Why Two License Plates??

Hello friends!

So, I meant to write this post a while ago, two weeks to be exact, but I was sick all last week and didn’t have access to a computer to post (made for a very boring week I might add). Anyway, without further adieu, here’s what happened.

It was the day before my bestest friend was coming back from Canada and I was super excited. Like most nights that week, I was headed over to hang with some guy friends of mine and I invited one of my roommates along as well. We were to bring drinks over, so a quick stop at TomThumb was necessary. As we perused the isles for some liquid to quench our thirst I had no idea that my car would be attacked. Attacked??  Well, here’s what happened. A family from GFA had some ingredients for all night prayer that we had that Friday night and didn’t use. They weren’t sure what to do with the mushy corn, so they were going to take it home I believe. Little did they know my car would be conveniently unattended at TomThumb, so they disposed of the corn there.

From my perspective however, my roommate and I came out to find two packets of frozen corn from Target wedged between the antenna and the front door of my car. What?!  Target brand corn, at TomThumb… on my car?  Where in the world did this come from?  And my windsheild wipers were up too… so strange!  Who could have done this?  and EW!  The corn isn’t frozen! it’s all mushy and gross!!  Anyway, I continued on my way and told the guys of what had happened. I ended up throwing the corn out, but was confused for a few days after that. After a few days, however, the GFA family confessed on my Facebook that it was them who placed the corn. Which was a great relief to my cornfused mind.

So, that was my corny happenstance!  Hope you enjoyed it!

Source: A Corny Happenstance