Miata Mailing List: June 1995, Message #66
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   From: Ainslie@aol.com
Subject: Fate
   Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 19:52:38 -0400

One of my favorite quotes is from Star Trek, The Next Generation. After yet
another narrow escape, Riker says "Fate smiles on fools, little children, and
ships named Enterprise". I'd like to add Topless Miatae to that list. Today I
was clocked at 39 in a "posted" 30 zone (I can't confirm this because is was
a beautiful 90 degrees in Boston and the last thing I was looking at what the
speedometer) on a semi-residential street. As I pulled over and started
looking for the old license and registration I tried to remember the
speedometer error rules. "Sorry officer my speedomoeter is off by 10% becuase
my tires are too big, or is it too small? Aaaaah! Anyway, the license was
easy to find, that's always in my wallet. The registration is usually in the
glovebox, but in order to make more room for tapes (sorry no CD-changer here)
I put it in the trunk. So here I am explaining to the cop that I am actually
looking for my registration and not that uzi that I stashed in here,
somewhere, when I open the trunk. Ah, there is my registration, right in the
little nook in the spare tire, right under my front license plate. "Heh heh,
oops, guess it's not in here either." As fate would have it, I got off with
just a verbal warning. I guess the license plate laws in Massachusetts are so
screwed up (if you have green plates, you only need one, if you have red,
white and blue ones, you need two) that even the cops don't understand them.
Or maybe is was just fate not wanting to ruin such a perfect day. : )