woaface
05-21-2004, 09:15 PM
If you don't like long stories don't read this, just skip to the third to last paragraph.
Or, "Gettin' pulled" as I told my sister. This is not a joke, this really happened this time!
I'm going down the road with a friend, we're just driving around starting to get bored and thinking of going back to his house. "Let's take one more run on the motor-mile" we decide.
I pull a U turn (because Laurens Road, where we want to go, is the other way)
After proceeding through the next light (which was GREEN and 30 feet ahead) I look behind me. FLASHING LIGHTS! WHOOP-TE-DOO! I'm SO excited.
So I'm scared sh**less and I decide I should start doing everything from here out right. I have no where to pull over on the right so I put my emergency signals on to let him know I see him. There's an empty median ahead and I pull into that, leaving him enough room to slide in behind as well. (Good things so far: Blinkers, room for officer:check. But I've still done SOMETHING wrong so it could be really bad if I don't do everything else right or slightly close)
I put the car in park, leave my blinkers on. He's shining his light on my car real bright...TINTS! He can't see. I turn my dome light on. (I'm glad I didn't almost forget that.) I'm nervous as crap and the officer strolls up to the window. "License and Registration". With both hands glued to the wheel I say "my license is in the seat-back compartment and my registration is, in, uh...er....the...eh...uh...boo klet in the passenger door. "Do you have any weapons in the car?" "No Sir" "You may reach for them" I grab my license in the back seat, he leans away from the car to look in the back window as I do so, making sure I don't come forward with something that will deserve a bullet in my head. I ask Brandon to grab the Mercury booklet and he does. I pull out my registration, hand them both to him. He looks at them.
"No points on your license, it's not suspended, anything like that?" "No sir"
::half smile on his face:: "This is your parents car?" (oh man am I glad I'm not in something really loud and buzzy or a hot rod) "Yes sir" CRAP the registration has my step-dad's last name on it and that's not MY last name! He's JUST starting to turn it over, but as I tell him that, he continues to read over the front of the registration card. "Do you know why I pulled you over?" I've always heard say no. "No sir" He gave me a stern "don't play with me, do I look impressed?" look and a similar half smile...to which I immediately responded "Yes sir, I made a U turn" (I may have said "an illegal" but I don't remember) He's definitely showing his command over who has athority at the moment, and it's working well, I'm scared but calming down. "Why did you do it?" "I didn't know it was illegal sir, there was no sign, I thought there had to be a sign" Which was the HONEST TRUTH, I SWEAR I heard that in driver's ed! He looks at me with a "I don't want any more crap from you kid" look and says "Driving drunk is illegal but you don't see any signs for that now do you?" "No sir" "You know where I'm going with this?" "Yes sir" He rolls his eyes back to my license.
"Where are you headed?" "Um, to Brandon's house, which is on Hudson Road" OOPS! THAT'S THE OTHER WAY! And what am I being pulled for? A U TURN!"
"But we were stopping by my sister's work, at Acura" Which is the CORRECT way...and even though it's closed, he accepted that.
"Do you have any alcohol in the vehicle?" (and this I will hear Brandon repeat for the rest of my life) "No sir, just mango drinks" We had just come from an ice-cream shop with smoothies in hand. He stares intently at them for a moment flashlight all over them..."What's that on the floor?" I look to where the flashlight is, Brandon starts to stutter something and I look back "Brandon is diabetic, that's his insulin shot" "Open it up please" Brandon reaches down and opens the case, the officer is quickly pleased and says he can put it back down.
Officer looks around, then back to his patrol car for a moment, then back to my papers, which he hands through the window and says "Ok, just be more careful son" "Yes sir" I take my papers, put them away, he's making a U turn and pulling off...I take off my hazards, dome light and put the car in drive...and Brandon and I laughed our asses off (although I don't know why I was laughing) most of the way home.
And the words that will live in my head forever "Do you have any alcohol in the vehicle?" "No sir, just mango drinks"
Man, 15 more minutes back home for Brandon and 5 more minutes for me from there. I noticed I was doing EXACTLY the speed limit the rest of the night, and I wasn't even trying...all the stupid things I've done, and how do I find out how easy it is to get pulled over? A U turn...
Man, he was a cool cop. As stern as he was, I expected that.
Or, "Gettin' pulled" as I told my sister. This is not a joke, this really happened this time!
I'm going down the road with a friend, we're just driving around starting to get bored and thinking of going back to his house. "Let's take one more run on the motor-mile" we decide.
I pull a U turn (because Laurens Road, where we want to go, is the other way)
After proceeding through the next light (which was GREEN and 30 feet ahead) I look behind me. FLASHING LIGHTS! WHOOP-TE-DOO! I'm SO excited.
So I'm scared sh**less and I decide I should start doing everything from here out right. I have no where to pull over on the right so I put my emergency signals on to let him know I see him. There's an empty median ahead and I pull into that, leaving him enough room to slide in behind as well. (Good things so far: Blinkers, room for officer:check. But I've still done SOMETHING wrong so it could be really bad if I don't do everything else right or slightly close)
I put the car in park, leave my blinkers on. He's shining his light on my car real bright...TINTS! He can't see. I turn my dome light on. (I'm glad I didn't almost forget that.) I'm nervous as crap and the officer strolls up to the window. "License and Registration". With both hands glued to the wheel I say "my license is in the seat-back compartment and my registration is, in, uh...er....the...eh...uh...boo klet in the passenger door. "Do you have any weapons in the car?" "No Sir" "You may reach for them" I grab my license in the back seat, he leans away from the car to look in the back window as I do so, making sure I don't come forward with something that will deserve a bullet in my head. I ask Brandon to grab the Mercury booklet and he does. I pull out my registration, hand them both to him. He looks at them.
"No points on your license, it's not suspended, anything like that?" "No sir"
::half smile on his face:: "This is your parents car?" (oh man am I glad I'm not in something really loud and buzzy or a hot rod) "Yes sir" CRAP the registration has my step-dad's last name on it and that's not MY last name! He's JUST starting to turn it over, but as I tell him that, he continues to read over the front of the registration card. "Do you know why I pulled you over?" I've always heard say no. "No sir" He gave me a stern "don't play with me, do I look impressed?" look and a similar half smile...to which I immediately responded "Yes sir, I made a U turn" (I may have said "an illegal" but I don't remember) He's definitely showing his command over who has athority at the moment, and it's working well, I'm scared but calming down. "Why did you do it?" "I didn't know it was illegal sir, there was no sign, I thought there had to be a sign" Which was the HONEST TRUTH, I SWEAR I heard that in driver's ed! He looks at me with a "I don't want any more crap from you kid" look and says "Driving drunk is illegal but you don't see any signs for that now do you?" "No sir" "You know where I'm going with this?" "Yes sir" He rolls his eyes back to my license.
"Where are you headed?" "Um, to Brandon's house, which is on Hudson Road" OOPS! THAT'S THE OTHER WAY! And what am I being pulled for? A U TURN!"
"But we were stopping by my sister's work, at Acura" Which is the CORRECT way...and even though it's closed, he accepted that.
"Do you have any alcohol in the vehicle?" (and this I will hear Brandon repeat for the rest of my life) "No sir, just mango drinks" We had just come from an ice-cream shop with smoothies in hand. He stares intently at them for a moment flashlight all over them..."What's that on the floor?" I look to where the flashlight is, Brandon starts to stutter something and I look back "Brandon is diabetic, that's his insulin shot" "Open it up please" Brandon reaches down and opens the case, the officer is quickly pleased and says he can put it back down.
Officer looks around, then back to his patrol car for a moment, then back to my papers, which he hands through the window and says "Ok, just be more careful son" "Yes sir" I take my papers, put them away, he's making a U turn and pulling off...I take off my hazards, dome light and put the car in drive...and Brandon and I laughed our asses off (although I don't know why I was laughing) most of the way home.
And the words that will live in my head forever "Do you have any alcohol in the vehicle?" "No sir, just mango drinks"
Man, 15 more minutes back home for Brandon and 5 more minutes for me from there. I noticed I was doing EXACTLY the speed limit the rest of the night, and I wasn't even trying...all the stupid things I've done, and how do I find out how easy it is to get pulled over? A U turn...
Man, he was a cool cop. As stern as he was, I expected that.