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I guess while we've got cop stories going on, I'll tell the horrible one about the first, and only, time I got pulled over.
I was driving down the main drag of my hometown with my family, and the cop starts flashing his lights behind me. I immediately got a little flipped out, seeing as it was the very first time I was pulled over. I tried to stay calm, since I've been told the worst thing you can do is cry, but wasn't really succeeding. (Too top it off, I had already been having a bad day- I'm not normally that nervous.)
Anyways, I pull over and the cop tells me the reason he pulled me over is that one of my brake lights was out. Still struggling to stay calm, I tell him I didn't know. He's like, "It's okay, I'm just going to give you a warning."
He then asks for my liscense. I hand it to him. He looks at me, looks at the license, and he tells me, "You know, I could put you in jail right now."
Of course, I was just barely holding it together before then, and I started to cry and aked him why. He's like, "You're not wearing your corrective lenses."
My mom and I both chime in at once saying I wear contacts. So, the guy basically shot off his mouth to a girl he already knew was nervous about having been pulled over, jittery and on the edge of tears! He had even commented on my nerves and I told him it was the first time I had ever been pulled over. (I was nineteen then, so he commented that was pretty impressive.) He hadn't even bothered to ask or look before saying something practically calculated to upset me worse!
After that, I was so upset and nervous that I had to hand off the steering wheel to my mom. I don't generally have much of a problem with the police, but that one showed such a lack of tact and sense it was ridiculous!
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