"Ursula Gets Busted"
It’s a bright sunny day as Ursula heads downtown in her red pickup truck. When she arrives at the office she fails to apply the brakes hard enough and the pickup jumps the curb and gives the side of the metal building a "smack."
Apparently unfazed by the mini-collision, Ursula backs up over the curb and finds a regular parking space. That’s what she meant to do in the first place.
The "smack" on the outside wall shakes the building and even cracks the Sheetrock on the inside wall where accountants are busily crunching numbers. Naturally, work stops immediately and the accountants call their supervisor at the main office.
Meanwhile, Ursula goes inside to the public area of the office and takes a number. While she’s waiting for her turn, Ursula goes through her purse and pulls out all the necessary paperwork.
It takes about 20 minutes, but Ursula is finally waited on. She completes all the requirements, pays her fee and receives the paperwork she’s been waiting for.
Just as she’s getting ready to leave the office the cops arrive. Someone points out Ursula and she is confronted by two uniformed police officers.
After a lengthy interview the cops take Ursula outside and ask her to stand erect, with her eyes closed, and put her right index finger in front of her nose. She can’t do that with either hand.
Then the cops ask her to recite the alphabet. She makes a feeble attempt — but can only do it while singing the alphabet song. Neither can she walk a straight line "heel-to-toe."
By now you must know Ursula is busted for DWI — driving while impaired. In this case it’s her medication, not booze, that’s causing Ursula’s problem.
What you may not know is that moments before her arrest, Ursula had just renewed her driver’s license. The building she "smacked" with her pickup truck was the DMV — Department of Motor Vehicles.
Copyright-Bob Ford 2005
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