Thanks Jesse!
J? Noooooo! (I mean, great for her, but noooooooo! She's awesome.)
Aww, what she said. I totally get wishing you had family nearby. I always wish I had grandparents around.
Or do you white people not get pulled over for stuff like that, it occurs to me may be the case?
Definitely get pulled over for that kind of stuff too
Thank you, people! It's great not to just occasionally lurk here, too.
Also, good luck, Burrell, and oh, Kat. I'm sorry.
does the cop roll up next to you in your blind spot and look at you in your side mirror
Sometimes. Just yesterday I had that happen NOT followed by getting pulled over, which was ultimately a relief, of course, but kept me very aware of where my hands were, etc, for a while.
Dunno, Liese, I've only been pulled over a couple times, and at least one of those I was super surprised by so no idea what he did first! That said, it would not one bit surprise me to find racist cops pulling you over for driving while Asian. ...it would surprise me more if they weren't. Oh America.
I've had that happen to me, but I was the lucky out-of-state license plate in a whole line of cars that didn't slow down fast enough with a changing speed limit. (Thanks Virginia, and kiss my tourist dollars goodbye forever!)
The drive to work this morning was a significantly better experience, with a couple of extremely hot guys jogging shirtless on my route to and from picking up breakfast. Maybe I'm not quite so ready for fall to arrive after all.
The last time I was pulled over, I knew it was for the expired plate, but my reaction was "Where the hell did you come from!" when I saw the lights in my mirror.
One of the supervisors is in a suit for some reason, and it doesn't look good on him. I don't know if it's because it's too big in the shoulders or that I never noticed how small his head is. Maybe if he didn't shave his head. From the neck down he's fine, except for the bunching in the shoulders.
I don't drive now, but my only observation is that being pulled over while white usually resulted in a warning/a ticket that went away if I fixed the thing within a day. I am not sure if it was the white young lady-ness or the fact that I cried a lot!
When I was in college, I did talk my way out of a ticket by the power of cleavage, big blue eyes, and a winsome smile. My sister so hated me for that.