Karin and I got pulled over on our way to Mexico City this morning. Karin had to go there to meet somebody from her company and I just went along to wander around. Any way, we just got inside the city limits when a cop car was buzzing us (sounds like those kiddy rides at Cedar Point). We wern't sure if we were getting pulled over because they are always flashing thier lights and buzzing all the time, seems like for no reason. I asked Karin to drive that morning because I didn't get very much sleep the night before. I didn't get up untill about 3pm the day before and I just wasn't tired and stayed up all night watching Sopranos (usually I would have drove).
I didn't really understand the cop at all but my sister seemed to have a small idea on what he was saying. She called her relocation assistant to try and translate better and see what was going on. In Mexico city there are certain days that car can drive and certain days that they can't. They go by the last number of you liscence plate to tell which days are cool to drive on, no matter where the car is from (we have a Michigan plate).
Karin just wanted them to give her a ticket and we could be on our way, but that would be too simple now would it. At first the cop said that he had to take the car and we could get it tommarro, yea right, that thing would be long gone. So we tried to bribe him, but we didn't have that much cash (and we desperatly needed gas) and he wasn't going for it. It was scary, my stomach was down into my leg. Karin started crying and begging. After a couple more calls to her friend the cop finally took our bribe although it was only $100 pesos ($10). He was trying to tell us that if he were to get pulled over in our country, they would have taken his car too, thats why he didn't want to let us go. He gave us a book to take in the car and put the money in so nobody could see it. Part of the stipulation of the bribe was that we had to turn around and go back to Toluca. So we did.
The cop was very nice and polite throught the whole time which was good, it made it a lot easier for us. All in all everything ended up OK and it was a very interesting experience, but the reault could have very well came out the opposite way, that's what was so scary. We learned two valuable lessions; 1) Keep a good amount of cash on hand for bribes and 2)Learn what days we can drive in DF.
Wish us luck tonite because it is our first day for our bowling league. I am still not sure what our name is! later
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