| 27 June |
Tellman Had Me Arrested! |
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So… This morning I wake up. It’s my birthday! And so, I’m like, happy about it, but not like a kid, you know? When you’ve had as many birthdays as I have, it just seems like another day.
I call in to the manager’s meeting that we have every morning at Overcome Everything, and I’m waiting to tell Tellman what’s on our team’s plate for the day.
Then, my husband pokes his head in to say, “There’s a police officer here to talk to you.”
I’m like, “What about?” He just shrugs and looks worried. Here, I’m thinking it’s donation time again.
So, I walk into the living room, and there’s a guy in his mid- to late thirties, probably, in a uniform. He says, “Are you the owner of a 2008 black CTS with the license number XXX-XXX?”
“Yes. What’s this about? Would you like to sit down?” I ask him.
“No, that’s OK… I was up late last night and I should just keep standing.” Now, I can smell the alcohol on his breath, and I’m thinking, Wow! He’s probably hungover. What the hell?
So, he says, “Were you driving in Creekwood Shopping Center on Wednesday?”
“I guess,” I said. There’s a Starbuck’s in there and other stuff we’re always going to, so I figured I could have been, but couldn’t quite remember.
So he turns the page, and says that they had a complaint from the Sheriff’s aunt. She was driving a yellow VW and said that I cut her off and forced her into the grass.
Now, I’ll show you how dumb a person can be:
1) The guy was wearing a wrinkled shirt with his undershirt hanging out at the sleeves and neckline. My dad was a cop. He was always starched and pressed (’course that was the olden days, but…) with shoes shining so clearly that I could see my face in them.
2) This part of Bradenton is really unincorporated Manatee County. Bradenton Police don’t really have jurisdiction.
3) That shopping center has no grass to be driven into.
But I’m not thinking, right? I’m just like, “Well, that’s totally wrong. First, I wouldn’t do that and second, I never did that.”
So he says, “Well, if you can’t own up to this, I have to take you downtown.”
Now, I’m totally furious. It’s my birthday and I have to go to downtown Bradenton in a police car so that my neighbors could watch me walk out in handcuffs, to totally ruin my day. I mean, these folks get upset when a blade of grass isn’t standing at attention. This would be bad.
Not only that, but he tells me he has to frisk me to get up against the wall!
As he’s telling me to put my arm behind my back to be cuffed, a thought goes through my head…
TELLMAN
Big bright lights go off in my brain and it finally takes over and starts working. This is no cop!
I was PUNKED.
It was totally hilarious, after the fact, and when I got back on the phone we all had a good laugh over it. Tellman really made my day. It started out hilarious and just keeps getting better.
But do you see how you can miss the details of things when you let your emotions get over on you? I wasn’t thinking logically because I was so totally humiliated by the allegations and really angry because there was nothing I could do, though I knew I was innocent. The anger just infused my brain and made me stupid.
Duh.
Don’t let your emotions rule you. Don’t take failure personally. Don’t let it get you down.
Just remember that with every failed project, you’re a winner. You know what NOT to do again. Just consider whatever didn’t turn out the way you’d hoped as a learning experience and move on. Next time, it will be easier and work better.
Christine Comaford-Lynch has a great philosophy about accepting rejection, and I wont’ go into it because this post is really long, but you should check out Rules for Renegades at RulesforRenegades.com and go to the “Cool Resources” section.
But first…
I had a totally awesome day. And because it’s my birthday and I’ve been laughing and doing stuff I love to do all day, I thought I’d let you in on something totally free and totally cool.
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