Heading through northern New Hampshire yesterday, I got pulled over by a policeman.
Speeding, he said.
He went back to his car to decide my fate.
When he returned, he announced that my license had been suspended some time ago for failure to pay a ticket.
I haven't had a ticket since I got my Valentine One radar detector, so this is from a long time ago indeed. And I most certainly did get that taken care of and the license restored (I had thought the ticket had been paid, but when I found out it hadn't I went in person to the Kissimmee courthouse to get it paid and get the license reinstated).
Except somehow the geniuses at the courthouse must not have marked it correctly, so it still says my license is suspended.
I had a receipt on my phone showing I had taken care of it, but the policeman's response was, "I have to go with what the system tells me."
"But the system is wrong, as you can see from what's on my phone."
"Sorry, but I have to go with what's in my system."
He was in a generous mood, so he decided he wouldn't arrest me. But I wouldn't be allowed to drive the car I was in.
You have to be kidding me.
So as soon as I finish writing this I'll be calling the Kissimmee courthouse to find out what the $%#%@ happened.
Meanwhile, of course, I was racing to get to my hotel to start last night's webinar.
If you were there, that's what I was joking about with Cheney about my run-in with the police.
I stuffed a lot of great content in last night's presentation, including case studies of actual sales promos I've done and why mine get much better results than so many others do.
Not to mention: I gave three case studies from my own life of how to monetize your haters.
Now that was fun.
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