Get your car inspected!
I am really bad at noticing that my car inspection is due. I always get it registered on time; they send you the thing in the mail! They should notify you of the inspection in the same way. I don’t ever look at the sticker! Well at the end of July, I realized that mine inspired in…July! It was a few days into August before I made a plan to get it done. I was leaving the church and making that U-turn under the freeway there, and right before I got all the way into the U-turn lane…I saw them…two motorcycle cops parked there in the shade, making the day of some unlucky drivers! Thankfully, I wasn’t totally in the lane yet, and no one was coming, so I could scoot over the the next lane which went through the light and turned left, thereby missing the watchful eye of the cops. Whew! I mean I could have pleaded with them, “Officer, really…I was ON MY WAY to get it inspected!” And it would be true, I really was on my way! But who would believe that story! I thought, I could even open up and boot up the laptop sitting in my passenger seat, to show them the google search I just conducted about the inspection stations nearest to my house. Maybe that would make them believe me. Probably not. I have heard that you have a 30 day grace period, so I probably wouldn’t have gotten a ticket, but still … gladly I didn’t have to do that. So a word to the wise…. get your cars inspected, and if yours is late, avoid U-turns!
