So the other day I shared that I am slightly obsessive about silly things. Today I share another one, I am paranoid about Cops....Soo here is tonight's scoop. I am headed home after running a few errands and such, and I haven't had dinner, so I pop on into Burger King and pick up a meal. As I am heading out of the Parking lot I am trying to cross over into the far lane and I realize there is this dude walking across the street right where I need to pull out. Well you know how you can judge how fast a person walks? It is fairly simple to judge that in 3 seconds they can cross X number of feet. Well I assumed the dude had moved at a reasonably human speed, and had at least crossed to the far side of the turn lane. So I very carefully pull out and head for the turn lane, OBVIOUSLY watching for the dude, and all of the sudden he is stopped, and backing up, and there is traffic coming at me on the right and I have to get out to the turn lane or cause a wreck...So I gently maneuver my way to the dudes left, and slowly pulled into the turn lane so I could wait for the traffic to pass in the far lane and I could get in....I made sure I pulled in slowly because I was close to the dude who just stopped and decided to back up in the middle of the street at 10 pm. Well I get to the turn lane and am safe from harm (as well as the dude) and I know there is traffic coming, so I turn to watch and wait and realize that the guy has stopped and backed up because he realized that there were cars coming (yes he had PLENTY of time to cross, he must have been surprised by me, or something I don't know) and he decided not to cross, but rather to stand in the middle of the road waiting to get hit.
Well lucky day for me, while I was paying attention to the dude and the oncoming traffic and getting into the turn lane, a COP stops and turns his lights on, and the dude looks confused for a minute and then realized the COP just stopped to help him cross safely. So I think, well I don't want to get myself in trouble, and since the COP technically has the right of way I decide to wait for the dude to pass the Cop and let the Cop go before I pull into traffic...(there was probably 10 ft between our cars) well the dude walks slowly (nervous about the other cars heading for him) and finally is across. Well the cop still has his lights on and WONT go, and the traffic is backing up behind him, so I figure the Cop is pulling me over for the whole maneuver I just performed....So I cross the two lanes of traffic and pull into the gas station across the way to wait for the cop. YA, THIS IS THE FUNNY PART....The cop guns it and it takes me a few to realize that he wasn't pulling me over, he was being courteous and stopping the oncoming traffic not only for the dude, but for me too. So I feel like a dufus, and I pull out and go on my merry way. So here's my question.....Why me? I guess I am very relieved that I didn't get pulled over, it is not my favorite thing in the world to have happen. It has been a few years and I am not ready for that to come full circle again. Lets just say if you have a speeding problem, want to fix it, and have absolutly NO Money, go to Vegas and speed in a School Crossing Zone, they really nail you big time for that....MORE THAN DRIVING DRUNK!!!!! What happens in Vegas DEFINITELY stays in Vegas!


1 comments:
Hahahaha!!!
I had this moment the other day. I was driving and pulled up to a red stop light.
A quick little aside...I HATE when the green light surprises me and I get left behind. So I always watch the perpendicular light to see when it turns yellow so that I know when mine should turn green.
In this particular instance, I couldn't see the light so I inched a little closer to see it and I did roll a bit into the pedestrian crossing hash-marks. Well...there was a cop behind me and all of the sudden he turned on his lights and his siren and my heart sank to my ovaries...until I realized he did it just to swerve around me and cross the red light cause he didn't want to wait behind me.
My cop wasn't as courteous as your cop.
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