<b>TimLH</b> - congrats on the cornucopia of well-deserved work rewards<br><br>
Hi <b>Lelly!</b><br><br><b>((((Nettie))))</b> - get some rest, dear<br><br><b>QOD Drunk Story</b>:<br>
Okay, I was not soused out of my mind for this one (I had had a minimal amount of alcohol when this happened) but it involved presumed drunk-off-my-assness, so I think it qualifies.<br><br>
Drove to my college campus sophomore year to meet up with some other friends at a party being thrown at a dormitory. As it turned out, our group met up with some wimmens there, and one friend volunteered their apartment as a post-party into the wee hours party location.<br><br>
We went down to the parking accompanied by said wimmins to go to our cars - we would go ahead and setup shop at the apartment, and we were giving directions/sweet talk to the wimmins would arrive later on. I was in my car in deep convo with one lady waiting for my friends to get in their car and follow; when I soon noticed their car speed off. I didn't exactly want to stop talking, but wanted to stay right behind my friend's car (I had only been to his place a couple times and wasn't 100% sure how to get there so I didn't want to get lost) so I ended the convo ASAP and sped off right behind them.<br><br>
Well, we had no idea a campus police car was parked behind the both of us. Our little Speed Racer maneuvers got him to tail us to pull us both over as we turned onto city street. However, it soon turned into just me after a minute or so; my friends evidently saw the drama going on behind them and did the smart(?!) thing and lost me and the campus police car quicker than <b>PTom</b> leaving a tired young whippersnapper in the dust at a 5K.<br><br>
About every 10-15 seconds or so, I noticed his lights would flash and the siren would briefly blare on. Now here's how stupid and/or naive (you decide) I was at the time - I honestly thought at that time that a police car would be flashing CONTINUAL lights blazing/sirens wailing to want to pull a driver over. So thus, we went through several stop lights, turns, and stop signs, with me meticulously following the law because the officer was following me so closely and I didn't want to break the law...well, save for the fact that I was now evading his ass de facto as we went merrily along.<br><br>
After a mile-plus(!) of this under-the-speed-limit/follow-all-laws-save-evasion chase, I finally got it in my mind that this officer WAS trying to pull me over, so I finally did head to the side of the road. That realization was bad enough; what made it worse was that my pullover to the side coincided with the arrival of ANOTHER backup city PD car, who had been called for assistance; this car pulled up next to me on the drivers side while the campus cop pulled up behind me.<br><br>
Two freakin' cops?!? Oh carp!! They're calling the whole police force to haul my ass in!<br><br>
I sat there all nervous at first, but I figured that wasn't going to help me out so I pulled out my license and just vowed to act as calm and polite as possible.<br><br>
Thankfully, after some discussion among the assembled officers, the city police officer went on his merry way, so I was left to deal with the campus officer. He was polite enough asking for my license and stuff, but his expression pretty much said, "What in the f*&k were you doing?!" He asked me the relevant questions on why I didn't pull over and all that (I don't think he bought my story.) He then asked me to step out of the car, where I passed the requisite coordination tests with flying colors.<br>
He asked me to wait in my car, so I did.<br><br>
And thus I waited. And I waited. In fact, about 20 minutes passed before I finally got tired of waiting and got out of my car, walked back to the campus police car, and asked the officer politely what he was planning to do with my case (probably NOT a smart maneuver, now that I think of it.)<br><br>
He handed me a ticket through his window, saying he really thought I was drunk but since I passed all the tests with flying colors, was coherent and polite about things, he wasn't going to pursue it any further.
