whoops!

Did I mention that I was driving back from footie today with Jaime and Adelson and I was chatting away to them. There was a police truck (with policemen sitting in the back) going very slowly in front of me. It stopped at the t-junction, and I stopped behind. Then it went forward to go – but stopped, and I ....didn’t!!! I went into the back of it!!! Whoops. I couldn’t believe it. In Honduras there is no insurance so whoever hits the car has to pay, or whoever does anything what-so-ever to a policeman or car has to pay a LOT! Bribery. So I just looked up at the truck full of policemen and just kept saying sorry, blushing and yet laughing...whilst looking slightly mortified! The policeman driving got out to come and talk to me, I reversed my car out of his bumper (I didn’t even realise I was that close until Jaime told me to reverse – a lot!) The policemen were killing themselves laughing! There was no damage in any way. (the fact I didn’t even feel I had gone into him says a lot about that, and about my car!) Jaime spoke to them, not sure what. Then the driver came to talk to me and told me my license plate was bent – I pointed out it was like that when I bought it! Now this is the point they charge you stupidly large amounts of money, but he just shook my hand instead and then shook Jaime’s hand and we all left friends!!! Hilarious! I was mortified, yet just laughed. Of all the people to bump into it was a truck full of police!! Sometimes it really does pay to be a white girl here; no one else would get away with it!!!