If you know me, you know that I have had many incidences with the cops. I am not usually doing anything wrong. I've technically only been "pulled over" a few times. My friends and I are usually parked in a parking lot talking and we get the whole police force on us. I understand why, most teenagers who are parked in cars are having sex, doing drugs, drinking, etc. But we don't do those things. Enough is enough, I think all of the officers on the pg police force know me by name. I feel like a serious criminal. They should be out getting those teenagers that are having sex, doing drugs, drinking, etc. But no, they find us and try to get us in trouble for nothing. I do appreciate cops, they keep our city safe. I just feel that it is a little much when my friends and I can't hardly go anywhere or do anything without getting the cops involved when we AREN'T breaking the law. We are good kids and don't mean to be so suspicious. The most recent story is this. . . it was a Saturday night and Katie, Caecee, and I were bored. It was quite late so we couldn't really be at any one's house causing havoc so we made asphalt pie and then got in the car and drove around for awhile. We then parked at a church parking lot. We were talking, listening to music and eating our asphalt pie. Next thing I know there is a cop behind us. Katie then starts to panic (I'm telling you, we're never doing anything to break the law but they freak us out so much that we act like we have something to hide, not on purpose.) So, Katie starts to panic and hides the bottle of CARAMEL from the asphalt pie under the seat. Like we had something to hide? This really helped the fact of suspicsion. If I was a cop I would've questioned us haha. It was just Katie's natural reaction, I'm telling you, these cops really do freak us out. I calmly (I'm so used to this, I'm pro) roll down my window and hand the officer my license (while getting out my license, I purposely flash my temple recommend at him.) He runs my license, finds nothing. He then questions us. I explain to him that we are just parked talking. This particular cop was actually very cool. Most of the pg cops are so bored that they call in half the police force for one car that is harmless. This policeman didn't call in help. He was talking with us and joking around and then he immediately stopped laughing and said "who's been drinking, I smell alcohol". WHAT? This cop just went from being cool to being not so cool. We aren't even old enough to buy alcohol, let alone, we don't believe in drinking. None of us drink....dr. pepper is about as far as we go. I then became very annoyed because I could tell the cop was digging for trouble when there wasn't any. Yes, my friends and I are very goofy and I'm sure we seem like we're drunk half the time. But we aren't, never have been, never will be. The cop kept pressuring me so much that I kept getting more and more nervous. Then, it sounded like I was lying when I wasn't. I became extremely talkative and my voice went up about 2 octaves. I couldn't help it, I was telling the truth but he was making me nervous and trying to create problems when there weren't any. Thank heavens for my genius mind that remembered right before the cop had pulled up behind us, I had put on hand sanitizer. While the cop was looking around the car for alcohol with his flashlight I then remembered the hand sanitizer thing. I told him that I had just put on hand sanitizer and showed it to him, he smelled my hands, etc. He then said "yep, that's it, hand sanitizer gets us every time, sorry I can tell that you haven't been drinking, it's the alcohol in the hand sanitizer that I can smell." We all then laughed and the cop became cool again and told us we could stay where we were, do whatever, just do get into trouble. He was a pretty cool cop. He left, and we continued to eat our asphalt pie. I'm just thankful that my mind connected and remembered that I had put on hand sanitizer or minutes later I would've been out of the car walking the line and half of my ward would've seen me doing this because I was at my local church parking lot...can you imagine the gossip that would've been going around the ward?? I know I act drunk and crazy, but for the record, I don't drink and never will. I'm just naturally weird, I don't need alcohol to act crazy, it just comes natural!! There are more funny details t this story but I think you just had to be there...if I wrote all of the details, it wouldn't come close to capturing the significance of those details. Some of those details, are a bit confidential as well, it was just a funny night and you had to be there to know everything that happened. I apologize for my writing, it is hard to write about a experience like this, I just can't put it into words. Lets just say, that we have nothing to hide, yet out of fear of cops, we think we need to hide everything. It is hard to explain, but oh so funny. We have had many funny experiences with police but I have to say, this most recent story is probably my favorite out of them all. Maybe you don't find this story funny, but it was, you had to be there!!!MORAL OF THE STORY. . .
beware of using hand sanitizer while driving. Cops will think that it is alcohol and you could find yourself in a lot of trouble when all you really wanted to do was have germ-free hands. Yes, it almost is a crime to sanitize your hands. Funny night. The trouble that my friends and I get ourselves into is hilarious.... :)
This picture was taken right after we had our little run in with the police.
This picture was taken right after we had our little run in with the police.
