Best day ever

Yesterday started off well with a free lunch at Lunch 2.0. After dinner I received an email from a college friend pointing me to a job that looks like a great for me. We planned to discuss it further over beer but realized that he was leaving town on Saturday and I was leaving town on Sunday. Fortunately, we turned out to be five minutes from each other at the time of email exchange and were talking over beer ten minutes later. I haven’t been this excited about a job in a long time, particularly one that matches my skill set so well.

I left in an incredibly good mood. While stopped in traffic I texted a friend to tell them the meeting went well, only see flashing lights in my rear view mirror. “Seriously? I’m getting pulled over for texting?” I thought. Actually, it turned out that I had run a stop sign – apparently I was in such a good mood and so lost in my thoughts that I didn’t even see it.

“Did you know that you just rolled right through a stop sign?” the police officer asked me. I wasn’t sure what to say. I remembered the advice from the videos in Why You Should Never Talk to the Cops but didn’t feel completely comfortable telling the officer that I was going to plead the fifth. In the end, I just stared confusedly for about fifteen seconds until he said, “ok,” and walked back to his cruiser.

Waiting in my car for the next ten minutes, I ran through all my options for fighting the ticket. Did I have any kind of plausible defense? But even with a ticket, I was still in a great mood, and when the officer came back to tell me he was letting me off with a warning, my day got even better.

A free lunch, an exciting job opportunity, an escaped traffic ticket, and a few other long time personal goals achieved all in one day. Very very satisfying.