5k is a long way.......

This past weekend, May 24th to be exact, I ran in a 5k race. A friend of mine, Rich, asked me if I would be interested in running a 5k. I said sure, how hard can it be.......Well let me tell you it's hard. At least for someone who doesn't run, ever. However, I did finish and didn't throw up like some of my fellow runners,granted those people all crossed the finish line well before me. And you know since I am writing about it something fun must have happened.

Well to run in the race you need a number, to get the number you need to go to the local elementary school, to get to the school you have to drive down and alley, or in my case the wrong way down the alley. So I start driving the wrong way down this alley when I see a police man sitting at the other end. Oh, crap! OK I pull into the school parking lot followed by the police man with his lights flashing. Great! So I get a ticket for $108.00 dollars, then police man goes back to where he was and waits for his next victim. BINGO he gets another, then another, then another. It turns out that the police on the main street were directing people down the alley the wrong way and everyone they directed down there got tickets. Sounds sneaky to me. Especially for a town that has a mayor who really isn't the mayor.

At the beginning of the race Rich hears the person organizing the race on the bull horn say something about getting the tickets fixed. (Rich is blind in one eye, so one of his ears must be bionic) After the race I see an organizer named Amy, she sends me inside to find Missy. I find Missy and tell her what happened. She takes my ticket and says she will take care of it. Thank you Missy!