I am so mad I could spit!!!

[judy]

I got arrested last night!!! Of course, I am innocent, but I am so upset by the whole thing today that I think it will take me a couple of days to calm down!

I was driving home from a really nice (but expensive) day with my Homegoods purchases and my new Radiesse (dermal filler injections). I got pulled over by a trooper. My headlight was out, which warrants a ticket to be forgiven once the light is fixed. As I was looking for my registration, he noticed a white pill bottle in my bag. I keep advil and a few Librium in there. I had no idea that you have to carry controlled medication in their original bottle. After 63 years of never having been accused of any crime whatsoever, I was told that I was being arrested!!!

Thank goodness he was a nice guy! I almost fainted when he told me that he was "taking me in." He calmed me down and explained that he had to and not to worry. It's only to be booked and no...I do not have to spend time in jail! He got a tow truck to bring my car to the station so that I wouldn't have to pay impound charges. The tow cost me $151.00 though!!! And I am innocent!!! I have a prescription which I have to bring to court on 1/26. I can't wait to see how much they fine me for carrying these pills in the wrong bottle!!! They sell pill boxes for goodness sake! Nobody knows about this law. Even the troopers told me that at the station.

Before I got into the police car, he had handcuffs to put on me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!After he saw my reaction, he put them away. He kept on asking me if I'm going to give him trouble. He said that since I had been so cooperative, he wouldn't handcuff me, and, if anybody asked, I should tell them that he had patted me down. Then he kept asking me if I feel okay, if I had taken any of them before driving. I got fingerprinted, photographed, and had to pass a sobriety test, part of which has to do with walking a straight line and standing on one foot. I have zero balance, but I was clearly not high, although he was concerned that my pupils were contracted. Then he said that the lights were bright in the station which probably caused that. Then, my eyes were reddish. I have dry eyes, had been driving with the heater on for 2 hours, and I was tired! He let it all go. Truthfully, he was very nice to mde, and went out of his way to assure me not to worry. I really did like him and I do appreciate the fact that he did his job so throroughly. There are lots of drugs up here, and drunk drivers, and one of them could hurt one of my grandchildren!

On the other hand, I am horrified that I was arrested. I think when I saw the handcuffs that really did it too me! I am very angry too because, coming from NYC, there is no way any cop would spend 2 minutes on this nonsense. You would have thought it was the crime of the century. I ws the only "criminal" in the station, and everybody got involved.

I also do have to laugh though because I have done one or two wrong things in my life. I am a child of the 60's after all. I never worried for one second back then! Now, at the age of 63, with a few prescription pills in my bag, I finally get caught! I am laughing about it, but the adrenalin is still running through my body.

I can never let my daughter know! I asked them to please not let this get into the police blotter in the paper. He said he wouldn't, but who knows. I will be so embarrassed!