No Really Officer........I didn't steal this car!

A year and a half ago my husband and I decided that we needed a bigger vehicle to accomodate our growing family.  So after a year of debating on Tahoe or Suburban, New or Used, we finally purchased a pre-owned Suburban.  I LOVE this BEAST of a vehicle by the way!  Only way to go if you have kids!  Anyhow~ This thing has more bells and whistles on it than I have ever seen or had in a vehicle.  Almost so many that it was distracting at first to even drive this thing! 

Well, this past fall, my girls and I were sitting at one of my sons football practices.  My youngest daughter fell asleep and of course my middle daughter is dancing around all over the car from the back to the front and then finally settled on sitting in the front seat.

So I am sitting there reading a book that I had been trying to finish for 6 months and all of a sudden I hear a phone start to ring in the car and it wasn't my cell phone.  So I realized that Livi has pushed the on-star emergency button.  BUT we did not subscribe to on-star when we bought the vehicle so I just pushed it off.  Well about a minute later I hear the same phone ringing and then a voice.  I still think nothing of it because this car has all sorts of voice prompts to try to get you to subscribe to this or that.  So I just shut it off again and went back to my book.

10 minutes later I have 3 police cars pulling up behind my car and I'm thinking "what is going on here at the park!?!"  But they have blocked me in and I now notice that they are heading for me and they are asking if I'm ok and whats going on and I'm thinking "WHAT THE HELL!!! ?? You people have the wrong person!"  Then they explain that they recieved an unknown emergency signal from my vehicle through on-star!  BUT WE DON'T HAVE ON-STAR!!!  But the people who owned it before us did and it was still activated!  So of course I apologize but to be safe they have to run my name and plates.  Easy enough.  No of course not!  The on-star is registered to the previous owners of the vehicle and is registered out of Mattoon and of course my name and information don't match up to this so now they are looking at me like they are going to be pulling me out of the car and tazing me any minute!  Meanwhile, all the football players have stopped and are looking in my direction along with every parent and my poor son didn't know what to do and looked like a deer in headlights out there on the field!  So, it was finally resolved, I apologized profusely and everyone went on there merry ways.  Small town though, bet there was alot of theories on that one for awhile! 

Embarrassed on a regular basis but lovin' it!

Mom, Momma, Mommy