Wednesday, June 4, 2008

For Lemon: THANK GOD I'M WHITE!

So I'm zipping along to work this morning and the po-po comes up behind me and hits the rollers. "Gah!" I think, "it's finally catching up to me." He asks me if I knew why he stopped me, I said "no," and he says it was because I crossed two lanes without signaling (does that count as a New Jersey slide?)

Thank Crom he didn't have his radar gun on me! I was sure he pulled me over for bumping along in the low 90s. But no, something not as severe I think, so there was a chance I'd not get a ticket. Lo and behold - a warning!

Now I asked the constable (seriously, he was a constable) why I was getting a warning, and not a ticket. He said, "because you're white, of course." Then he let me play with his mace (I sprayed some non-causcasians for a giggle), and after that we drove around in his cruiser while I got to turn on the siren whenever I wanted to. Well, almost - I was about to blast some little old lady when he stopped me. "Hold on there my Aryan brother, she's white." We pulled up beside her and doggonit, he was right. I thought she was Hispanic, but she just had a tan.

So then we toodled over to Little Dehli, and I got to write out a bunch of DWIs (Driving While Indian) to all the Indian soccer moms in Toyota Siennas. After that I went back to my car, and an escort of cruisers drove me to work.

And it's all true, up to the point where I wrote that he was a constable. But seriously though, I'm sure I got to skate because I'm white. Either that, or it was the fact that I haven't been pulled over for about seven years, and I haven't had a ticket for close to nine.

5 comments:

Wander said...

Man, that had me rolling.

Anonymous said...

...or he thought you were cute, and was hoping you'd play with his "nightstick."

Anonymous said...

Ooooohhhhhh Lemon! It is nice to know you read this blog every once and a while. Plus it was funny.

Anonymous said...

Actually, you didn't get a ticket probably because you didn't have a pony tail.

Dutch said...

AH! TOUCHE'

That would be even funnier if I didn't get hit on by gay men. As it is, it's too close to home.

True though, I did get hassled a lot when I had the hippie hair. Of course, we also lived in a podunk town.