January 28, 2009

• A Gay Traffic School Valentine

  Update:  Click Here to see how Gay Traffic School went!

  Remember that speeding ticket I got last summer?  Well I finally got around to signing up for traffic school before the February 17th deadline.  Unfortunately, because I got the ticket behind the Orange Curtain, I couldn’t take traffic school online.  So when I looked at the list of state approved classes, this is what I found:

  

  The “Gay Community Traffic School” is coincidentally the closest one to my house.    When I called them, the queen on the phone was very friendly.  He told me that the only day available before my deadline was February 14th from 9-5.  I said, “Fine, I’ll take it”.  Then he paused dramatically and said “You know that’s Valentine’s Day, don’t you??”  I laughingly told him I was aware that February 14th was Valentine’s Day, and then he actually asked me if I had a Valentine!  I kind of stuttered in disbelief, and told him “No”.  After that he told me he’d call me the day before to remind me,  and to show up with $32.95 in cash that morning.  LOL.

  Apparently this Gay Traffic School is quite popular here and in San Francisco.  To wit:
  

  The Best Place to Meet If You’re Looking For:

  A Speed Queen
  

  Calling Erik Estrada. Gay traffic violators commiserate, cruise, and discharge their points at Joey Randall’s Gay…community Traffic School. For eight hours, students trade traffic jokes and play “Traffic School Jeopardy.” Randall says classes are bumper-to-bumper because “people know they’re going to meet others they might be interested in.” An instructor at Randall’s L.A. school teaches in drag, so watch what you say about women drivers. Classes meet weekly. Call (800) 429-4968.

  Maybe my instructor will be the one in drag?!  Now that would be blog-worthy!

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  Here are some photos from over the weekend with David & Hyun Ju.  We went downtown to meet up with CJ so I could finally give him the Rubik’s Cube that Macky signed for him last summer.  He was so appreciative!  I hadn’t seen him since the competition at the Discovery Science Center last spring, when he was so nice and patient with my little cousin Tommy.

  
  Me with future world famous video game designer Daniel Chan

  
  Then we went to Chinatown to celebrate Chinese New Year, but I didn’t see an ox, just these turtles!

  
  Poolside at The Standard Hotel, downtown Los Angeles

   

  

  
  I wish they would have told me I still had the damn Bluetooth in my ear!

  
  Taken from the car at 60 mph
  
  

  
  The aptly named Sunset Blvd.

  
  Best of the rest…

  
  

  ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

  “J. Crew’s stock has gone up 10 percent because first lady Michelle Obama has been spotted wearing their clothes. Which begs the question, Mrs. Obama, how would you feel about wearing a Buick?” –  Conan O’Brien

  Update:  Click Here to see how Gay Traffic School went!
  
  

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