A warrant for my arrest

As love-you-long-time friend Pete Wehmeyer and I rolled out of the Mon Desir Principality yesterday for a leisurely spin my phone rings. Fumbling for my gate remote as is, I reach for the adjacent phone and get acquainted with Colleen who is interested in checking I am, in fact, Daniel Godfrey Hugo. Which I happen to be, last time I checked. She then seems interested in my exact whereabouts. Kind of forward. It was at this point I started to focus, now through a few 4-way Stops and traffic circles.

Uhm and ah’s werent satisfactory to Colleen, who now revealved her intent: To get me.

I’m not usually that hard to get. But she’d been calling my number, which would have been off for the time in the States… And apparently the car number plate is false she suggests? Further, the information I jotted down, was dishonest. Which it wasnt. But giving a vague yet accurate farm address seemed to keep them from knocking on the front door…

So I could recall the incident, and the stretch of road on which I was commuting 115km/h - some bit above the 60km/h limit. And a lot faster than I ever went in Truckee. Which seems odd to think now, but 115 there seems super slow, and 100 in Truckee is unthinkable. Either way, I was trying to get home to the farm, for Sunday lunch. As one does. Must have been hungry… It should surely not be a 60km/h zone, and I feel strongly about this. Would gladly state my case. Which would have been possible in a few court appearance schedules…

But perhaps I was out clubbing in Vegas, or in the Dueling Piano bar in Little Rock, or screaming down the Western States Trail as my name was being read out. I dont know. What I do know, is that my opportunity to plead my innocence, as I do with all the usual fines, was long past.

So while seeing this:

The stunning vineyard surroundings of the Bosch, I’m checking mail in uneasily - as Colleen has called twice (avoided those…) to check I’d received the fine.

I like being wanted. But this seemed different.

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Tags: Humour, News, Stellenbosch

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