Zero Tolerance

Mudflap and I had a good time last on our special assignment, "Zero Tolerance." Mudflap called me up after leaving the task force meeting and told me I was going to love it b/c we were under instructions to arrest anyone who had no driver's license and no insurance! Oh boy! Finally, I had permission to be as mean as I wanted to be. And it's not like I'm really being mean, I just fully enjoy arresting people who need to be arrested.

Unfortunately, after a long night of pulling over all kinds of people with no front license plates (my favorite kind of PC, or Probable Cause) we'd written several tickets but found no hard-core criminals. For awhile there it seemed like we were pulling over nothing but priests, nuns, and Sunday-school teachers for everyone had their shit together! I did get to yell at one knucklehead though, b/c he was being a total knucklehead. He only spoke Spanish (of course) and had a head wound that was bleeding down his face. He claimed he'd been jumped by a gang of about 15 punks inside the Mexican flea market parking lot, so we made him go back in and we followed him so we could find the punks. But it wasn't long before we determined he was actually drunk ("I only drank 1 beer!") and was acting erratic and a fool besides. I got in his face and yelled at him to quit wasting our time and even nice little Mudflap got pissed off at him. Then we sent him home with one of his knucklehead friends.

So today I'm wiped out since we didn't get home 'til after midnight. I had made a date with myself to take myself shooting tonight (Monday is Ladies' Night at the gun range!) but I am too tired. Saturday was a very long day as well, what with working and then going to the bachelorette party afterwards, which was ok although excruciatingly boring at times. I knew I'd have nothing to talk about with the overfed, uninteresting, vapid yuppie women, but that's ok b/c I got an awesome meal for my troubles.

I only got to see the baby on Friday night and then yesterday. We went to eat at La Mad before church, then had a nice morning at church, then we went to the zoo. I don't know what we were thinking--it was so oppressively hot yesterday it felt like walking around in a damn oven. But she had a great time frolicking at the water park and she bought us sno-cones with her allowance (S and I were both totally out of cash) so it was worth it. We'll have her again next weekend and I don't have to work FOR ONCE so it'll be nice to have a long, family weekend together.