Some of you may have read this story on Bryn's blog, but I am going to post my version of what happened. Yesterday Bryn had piano and dance - that doesn't usually happen - Cheri (the girls' piano teacher was out of town on their regular day). So, I had to pick Bryn up from piano and hurry and get her to dance. Well, I guess I was "hurrying" a little too much for the Sandy City police officer I passed and he thought we should have a little chat (I really was only going 11 over the speed limit so it wasn't THAT bad.).
I apologized and told him my story about trying to get my daughter between lessons and he didn't seem to have a lot of sympathy for that story and asked for my license and registration which I had ready to hand to him. When he looked at my license he asked if I was related to Sherriff Winder so I had to explain that Wynder is with a "y" not an "i" (which he should have been able to see on my license). But, since he seemed to be interested in who I was related to, I used the "my brother was a Sandy City police officer" card. I asked him how long he had been with Sandy City and he said about 6 years and asked who my brother was. When I told him Gary's name he said he did know Gary but he kind of looked at me funny and asked if he was my brother-in-law or my "real brother". I don't know if he thought I looked to old to be Gary's sister or was thinking that we look nothing alike (which is true). I told him Gary was my "real" brother and he asked how he was doing and if he was still doing his military stuff. So, we had a nice little talk and he very nicely handed my license and registration back to me and told me I really should slow down and walked back to his car - with me yelling "thank you" out my car window.
So, yes JaNae, being related to Gary does come in handy. And, if Gary reads this, or you can tell him, JaNae, the officer's name was R. Nielsen (he looked about the same age as Gary) and he said to tell you "hi". Other than Bryn being about 15 minutes late for dance everything ended happily!
