Go Speed Racer!

This story is for those of you that were not in attendance at the Kuklenz Christmas, Revisted.

It was Saturday, January 1st. Doug was going to Walmart to get fresh buns for dinner. He took his nephews, Ryan & Nathan along with him. Doug's sister, Diane had given Nathan some money to get her some Orbit gum for the plane ride home. Who knew what excitement they would have!

First of all they got to Walmart, got the buns and proceeded to the cash register. Doug didn't have his wallet...so home they came. Nathan was caught "darting" into the back door, grabbing Doug's wallet and "darting" back out the door. The gang returned to Walmart, made their bun purchase and checked out the Orbit gum selection. They did not find the specific type Diane had requested. ROAD TRIP!

They proceeded to a local convenience store (Q-Trip) and also were unable to find the gum. In the store, the boys were "horsing around" and Doug told them to calm down "It's the cops!". There had been a police officer in the store at the time. The cop snickered or snared (Doug wasn't really sure which). The gang of three exited the store and headed up Main Street (FM423) in search of a 7-11 to see if they had the Orbit gum.

Nearing the border of The Colony & Little Elm, Nathan said "Uncle Doug" "There is a cop behind you". Doug looked up to see a policeman with his lights going. He knew he wasn't trying to get around him, so he pulled over.

Doug was stopped for speeding. The policeman clocked him doing 66mph in a 55 mph zone.
Cost of the ticket $180

Doug swore the boys to secrecy. They didn't say anything when they got back, until later that day when Doug said "Did the boys say anything interesting about the outing". We thought he was talking about the wallet incident. But I had seen Nathan sneaking into the house to get Doug's wallet. Not that interesting...

Doug said "No, that's not it". So he told us the story of what happened.

A few minutes later, Nathan & Ryan came down the stairs. We asked them "Did anything interesting happen when you were out with Uncle Doug?"

Nathan made a face, gulped big and turned around and ran up the stairs.

We then told the boys the secret was out and they told us their version of the story :-)
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Follow-up to the story.
Diane received her gum.

Doug want to the The Colony City Municipal Court. He found out if he paid a fine of $107 and took Defensive Driving class within 90 days and got a copy of his drivers record, the ticket would not go on his record.

The fine was paid. He purchased a copy of his driver's record for $10.
He enrolled in an online Comedy Defensive Driving School at a cost of $25

This was a painful 6 hours for him and everyone in the house. As we heard on many occassions how "mind numbing" the whole process was.

We asked him if he learned anything from the class. "No!", he said.

He has been the butt of many speeding jokes around the house. And Jackie has threatened to send "Dog, the Bounty Hunter" after him for his next offense.



Hope you were entertained by the story...It's always something around here!