whenever i was stopped by the copswhich for some crazy reason happened a lot , it was a joke with vivian , my girlfriend , who called me a cop magnet and who thought and often told me that fingers on the license plate perhaps implied something criminal or offensive to themanyway , whenever i was stopped i could never find my insurance and registration because my glove compartment was always such a mess , so i came up with the idea of putting them in a ziploc plastic bag and then taping it to the roof of the compartment .