just curious, my friends,

[roxy]

How many times have you been stopped by the police--without doing anything to give them a reason to stop you, like speeding, or weaving all over the road, or throwing stuff out the window?

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[sweptawaybayou.livejournal.com]

I have been pulled over a couple of times - but they were all deserved. Tags out of date, one front light out, etc. I've also gotten speeding tickets and I've never tried to get out of them, heh. I know people that *have* just by crying or being all melodramatic, but on the rare occasions I do speed I know exactly how fast I was going ... so I never lie.

I do have a story for you though, which at the time was fucking hilarious, but in light of everything that's been happening lately - it's kinda horrifying now.

Way back in the day just after I was divorced, I was working in a very small grocery store. I was the asst mgr and worked with (mostly) a bunch of high school kids and the random adults that wanted/needed a second job. We all got to be good friends. One of the kids was a super!handsome and friendly black high school boy. Excellent at football and very personable. Just an all around good kid, right? And one of the adults was a white guy, young but married and with kids. He was (at the time) a Leavenworth cop and worked at our store to make some extra $$.

SO.

One night long ago, I'm taking my kids to swimming lessons at the Community Center. When we get done, I'm basically sleep walking to the car. It was warm and humid in there and I'd worked all day and the kids were all *talk talk talk* and it's dark and I'm just on auto-pilot, right? Out of the dark, this kid from the store runs up behind me and jumps on my back.

SCARED the ever living *crap* out of me. I know I screamed. And flailed.

He thought it was hilarious. And after I recovered, I laughed also. I mean, wtf else are you going to do?

So a couple days later I'm at work and I tell the cop guy about it. Telling him how scared i was! And we both laughed.

Well ... about two weeks later - the teenager and I are working together and he tells me that the cop had pulled him over the night before that. Told him to get the fuck out of his car and frisked him. Pushed him down on the trunk of his car and started to put handcuffs on him and the teen boy was freaking *out*, right? He'd never been in trouble before. And the cop pushes him down and says ...

'That's what you get for scaring Snow.'

Then, of course, he let him go.

BUT OMFG. I think back on that and i'm all ... oh, funny pranks between friends - but nowadays? HOLY FUCK. Probably not so funny. At all.

*hugshugshugshugs*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Wow...that's actually a really scary story. Good thing the cop just wanted to be funny.