Don't forget to turn on your lights while driving in MNE

Well, we have been here for about 3 weeks and for the first time, we were stopped by the police.  Here they use a little stick with a reflector on it -- sort of looks like a lollipop to me.  As soon as he waved the little lollipop, Chris said, "I forgot to turn on my lights!"  Sure enough, that was the problem.  

He was then invited to sit in the officer's car and the conversation went a little like this:  (We have heard it before -- just in a different language :) .  

First in English with hand gestures:  "You must to drive with lights.  Understand?  No can see with no lights." 

Chris answered in broken Serbian with a Russian/American accent, "Yes, I know.  I am sorry that I forgot, I won't do it again."  

"This is a big problem.  What is your mother's name?  What is your father's name?  Where do you live?"  Chris answered all the questions as the officer writes all the information down on a tablet. 

"Now you must go to the post office to pay this fine.  I will keep your driver's license and passport until you return."  Chris gets the directions to the post office, repeats them to the officer.  Then the other officer approaches the car and the one writing the information down asks, "Can you show this man where the post office is?"   Answer,  "It's Sunday, they are closed."

Then the officer actually throws up his hands, hits his head and says, "What are we going to do?"

Chris asks, "Can I pay the fine tomorrow?"  "No no no, you can just pay me now,"  said the officer.

"I can't do that, just give me a ticket and I will pay it tomorrow,"  says Chris.   

"Oh, I don't have any tickets with me today, what will we do?" says the officer.

At this point, Chris just sits there and listens as the officer tries to put more pressure on him, but Chris just politely sits there until the officer lets him go.  He was pretty impressed with their little "script."  

They wanted 30 euros for not having his lights on!  Needless to say, we are thankful for the Lord's protection and we won't forget to turn our lights on in the future!