Apparently, in Minnesota, when you move, you're required to get a new driver's license within 30 days showing your new address. I wasn't aware.
Here are the order of (imperative) events.
1. We moved into this house almost a year ago.
2. I got new license plates for our car
3. I was unable to put the new license plates on the car because the screw were rusted on
4. I received a parking ticket for expired tabs
5. I placed the new plate in the back window, above the old plate
6. I got pulled over for having two plates showing
7. I gave the officer my license and answered him honestly when he asked if I lived at my old address
8. He spent 8 minutes or so looking up my info (with my pregnant wife, daughter, and dog waiting)
9. He cited me for having the wrong address on my license
Here's the thing. I know the guy has to do his job. But I really was trying to be helpful with the whole license plate thing. I don't know. Maybe I'm just frustrated. My neighbor grows pot on his back porch and plays loud music at all hours of the night and there are always people shouting in his house and his dog is terrifying and his buddies dog is always running around the neighborhood. And that's just my neighbor, you know? Ah. Life is unfair. C'est la vie.
One more thing. The citation refers to the police officer as an "officer of peace". I wonder how our idea of law enforcement might change if everyone referred to the police as officers of peace. And if they legitimately though of themselves as officers of peace.
I asked Sarah what she thought and she said, "Maybe they'd be more like mounties." O Canada! Maybe we'll change our address again.
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