*Comes running in the door and...

[Simpetarwen]

*THWACK!!*

Look!! I saved the One Tea Towel all this time for such a moment as this!!

*Collapses sobbing on the salvaged Old Bar* I can't believe the Pony's back!! with a Choice of Views!! Ohmigandalf!

WE CAN GO NOGGING AGAIN!!

*Wipes tears from eyes & looks around lovingly at all my dear friends*

*sighs*

There's no place like home!

Barkeep!! *snaps fingers* A Pistachio Eggnog and Haldirmallows, please!

[Strange Elf]

*Does happy dance* Glad to see you have made your way here, Simp. Still remembering your warm greeting at ORC. Wish we could have spent a little more time together.

[True-Hearted Easterling]

Simp! So fabulous to see you again!

Had any more run-ins with any LA cops on bikes recently? *snicker*

[Simpetarwen]

Snicker away, my good friend!! Just remember..

I fought the law and the ELF won!!

(It was those pictures that I took of the crime scene that clinched the deal! I always travel with my camera now...)

[Simpetarwen]

*grabs SE's elbow and does a dose-e-doh*

We'll have time and a place here, dahlink!

[Strange Elf]

Had any more run-ins with any LA cops on bikes recently? *snicker*

Sounds intriguing! Enquiring minds what to know 'the rest of the story'.

[Avondster]

Because I thought he was kinda cute... despite the dorky shorts.

The Scurvy Sea Attorney rules!

[Avondster]

That having me aboard your car seems to be the Ringer equivalent of an Albatross aboard your ship... everyone gets tickets all of a sudden!

[Simpetarwen]

No, I didn't ask for his phone no. Did you want it?

He was too slick for me.

[Simpetarwen]

See? It was January. True-Hearted and Avondster were arriving at LAX from Chicago to attend the ORC thingy in Pasadena, and the Simpetarwen Taxi service was delayed in traffic but bravely making it's way through truly orcish traffic to fetch them fromt he Arrivals curb.

As I made my way onto the Arrivals level, I went through a (green light) interesection and then through the gap to the inner loop at their airline. We were on cell phones to each other, when I noticed this funny, bobbing red light low in my rear view mirror.

What IS that? Cranberries from Yumland?!?!

YIKES! Is it...? Could it be...?!? YES!! I was being pulled over by a
...
BICYCLE COP!! (His red light was on his handlebars so it really looks funny in a rear view mirror.)

To make a long story short, I told the arrivees to just come to the car getting a ticket and even though they stood there with long, sad, sympathetic faces, Officer Hot Pants (he was wearing bicycle shorts) was unmoved and gave me a ticket anyway. (Made it easy to find me though, didn't it?)

I didn;t understand what the guy was talking about, so hungry and starving as my passengers were, I rounded the airport (about 15 minutes to do this in rush hour traffic) to see for myself where he'd said I'd entered the inner loop wrong...and...it was BLOCKED by orange cones!! I couldn't have gone in there if I'd tried!!

Soooo, I made my hungry and starving passengers endure another go-around so I could take a video of the Crime Scene with my new digital camera.

Later, I fought the ticket in court. Officer Hot Pants actually showed up, too!! so I had to plead my case. WHen I showed the judge my pictures, she looked at him and said "I'm going to have to find her Not Guilty." and he actually blushed!! He should have been embarrassed because he'd been caught in a trumped up ticket. HAH!!

The Scurvy Sea Elf Attorney RULES, I say!!

And, no, dear Avondster, no albatross were you. You were a great deal of fun and distraction. Spiders and all...

[True-Hearted Easterling]

Well, yes, I did get that ticket when we were arriving back in Chicago after ORC, but at least that nice policeman in Milwaukee gave us a ride instead of a ticket.

Yes, as part of her first visit to the US, Avondster got to encounter THREE American cops.

That having me aboard your car seems to be the Ringer equivalent of an Albatross aboard your ship... everyone gets tickets all of a sudden!

[Simpetarwen]

Come to think of it, perhaps it was her Dutchley beauty that called out to the cops - like a Siren in reverse - and, in fact, it WAS her presence that got us each pulled over, but not by being an Albatross.

Oh no.

By being the raving Dutch beauty that she is, either as herself or as Luthien.

[Strange Elf]

Officer Hot Pants . I can see him now *visualizes a male Daisy Duke* Better still, Eric Estrada in hot pants Oh, this is too much! Thanks, Simp.

[Silivren Ithildin]

[Avondster]

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