One of my office mates got an alert about the tsunami watch, but it was truncated, so I had to look it up. The arrival time (if there is one) was oddly specific: 3:11am local time.

I got pulled over here (not stopping at a stop sign), but did not get a ticket. In this case, I think it's because my car was in my name (i.e. not a rental. i.e. not a tourist)

Today I drove by a parked policeman who had his radar gun out. I was speeding and just got a hand signal from him to slow down. Whew.

I was speeding and just got a hand signal from him to slow down. Whew.

One time I was speeding down the interstate and passed a sign for the correctional facility; about 2 minutes later, I noticed a cop car on the shoulder, and a cop who had basically walked out into the rightmost lane and was just pointing his finger at cars and gesturing them to pull over.

I swear to you my first thought was that maybe someone broke out of the correctional facility. I thought this AS I WAS SPEEDING. And then he pointed at me, and I thought, huh, did I miss a radar gun somewhere?

Yes. Yes, I did.

Quote for the day: "My pocket is like a panini press."

I've been pulled over for driving while a teenager. Other than that it's been speeding.

I once got pulled over on the Texas/Arkansas border for failing to signal a lane change as I swerved to avoid the idiot cop who was walking in the road alongside a pulled-over car. It was a flimsy pretext for a drug search, so I hope he had fun looking through the trunk that was approaching total entropy at the time.

I swear to you my first thought was that maybe someone broke out of the correctional facility. I thought this AS I WAS SPEEDING. And then he pointed at me, and I thought, huh, did I miss a radar gun somewhere?

I would've totally done that, Steph, if it makes you feel any better.

I've also more than once failed to correctly interpret the flailing hand signals of LEOS. They dislike that.

Which is more correct?

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When the "speaker" is a computer program.

MS Outlook uses "we." Just sounds weird. Although "I" is maybe too cutesy for business software.

I don't actually have a blind spot because I have one of those little round mirrors, so I know he's there, but it is hard to drive like that. The expired tag was a long time ago, so we'll throw that one out. But I've been getting pulled over a lot lately, and I really don't think I'm that bad a driver. I could be, I'm a little aggressive, and I can't argue that I tailgate, so I suppose it's probably fine. (Although, seriously, this last time he recommended a car length for every ten mph. I'm driving seventy, so seven car lengths, who does that?). I already get honked at for not pulling back over after passing a truck until I can see it in my rear view, not just right side.

It could definitely be the out of state tag. I'm always out of state. I just thought it was weird how they always looked at my face before deciding to pull me over.

When it happens most is this scenario: I see a cop trapping. I note it in Waze (so probably veer a little). I move over into the other lane to avoid the cop as per many state laws. All the other cars slow down abruptly. But I am driving cruise control, so I know I am not speeding, and maintain my speed. This probably brings me closer to the cars than I should be, but I tend not to brake because a) I want to illustrate that I was not speeding and b) I know the other cars will speed back up as soon as they pass the speed trap.

This last time, he then rolled up behind me, then beside me, and when he pulled me over said I was following too close and when he came to check it out, I swerved almost, but not, across the white line. Which is probably true because it made me nervous watching him drive like that, and I was watching him watch me in my side mirror.

For a while in Arkansas last trip I was convinced it was because of Waze itself, but this time the officer had me get in his car (why do they do that, and why only sometimes?) and there weren't an devices visible there where he would be monitoring Waze. So that's when I decided maybe I swerve when using Waze? I have to look at it even using voice control, so perhaps? I didn't think I was, obviously, because I believe I'm being safe on the road. And this time I made it through Arkansas no problem, this happened in Oklahoma, where technically I was probably pulled over for being mistaken for Native, as during my extended conversation with the cop I discussed my work and he asked if I was Navajo; I think he thought I was Cherokee prior to that.

I would never get in a car with an officer, they would have to arrest me.

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