Ah, doing the "California Roll" at a stop sign - I did it once, years ago, on Easter, driving home from a day at Disneyland at around 1am. This is so stupid... I had gone with 2 stoner (at the time) friends to Disneyland that day and since I was housesitting for my parents, we all decided to come back to my place and crash. We stopped by one friend's house so he could grab his overnight bag and his smoking aparatus which was a very, very ridiculously tall bong. Before leaving my friend's place, the 2 of them took a couple of hits but I thought better of it to wait til I was back at home and in my jammies. He took his car and my other friend and I took my car and we were caravanning nice and easy back to my place. The streets were deserted. I slowed down at an intersection and didn't stop all the way, like a moron. By the time I rolled through the Stop sign, I saw johnny law and I let out an audible "d'ooooooooooooooooooh shit!" but it was too late. The harsh reality in the form of cop lights flooded my car and I pulled over, nice and easy, and put my hands on the steering wheel. My friend who was with me immediately starts freaking out, "Oh my god, oh my god... Brent's overnight bag is in your backseat and it's full of pot!!"

"SHhhh!! Shut up... what? What? What bag?!!" I said. And that's just great that I had become someone's damn drug mule without my even knowing.

Up swaggers the cop as Brent drives past, the tail lights of his car getting smaller and smaller the further he drives up the road. Meanwhile my friend is sitting in the pasenger seat, shaking like a leaf the way people who've never been pulled over tend to quake when faced with an authortarian figure. The cop taps on my window with the top of his flashlight. I rolled it down and he asks how much I'd been drinking. "Just some coffee, no alcohol for me sir I'm only 20 years old." Being all proper n'stuff.

"Where are you driving from and where are you going?"

I pointed to the Disney parking permit I still had on my dashboard, "Just coming from Disneyland, sir. We were there all day and I'm just going home because I'm soooooo tired.." Thank god it was a man-cop, because I couldn't have gotten away with batting my eyelashes and being all proper and lady-like had it been a lady-cop who pulled me over.

The cop pulls out his flashlight and starts probing around my little car. A wimper comes from my friend and I stare her a mean glance that says "shut up!" out of the corner of my eye. The flashlight probed my backseat where Brent's bag was.

Mr. Law then takes a step back from my car door and walks to the front of my car. "Miss, your headlight is out so you might want to get that changed."

"Oh really, sir? I... I had no idea my headlight was out sir. I'll get that fixed right away!"

Then the cop lets me go with a warning.

About 5 minutes later I'm home and there's my other friend, chain smoking cigarettes in my driveway like some paranoid fiend. "OH my god, I am so sorry!!! I didn't know what to do so I just kept on driving. I thought my overnight bag would be safe with you because you hadn't smoked anything and didn't think you'd get pulled over. Gosh, man, I'm sorry. You didn't get in trouble did you?"

That's when I decided to look in my back seat and check the offending bag. Half the fucking bong was sticking out of his overnight bag in plain site on the back seat of my car, and all the damn pot he had in there with his change of clothes had settled in and started to get manky like a rastafarian church.

"No obviously I didn't get in trouble, but I can't believe you'd put me in the position to say 'but officer, I swear the mari-ju-wana isn't mine, sir. " Fuckin' loser. :lol:

I love cop stories and I have a couple more. Who has some good ones to swap?

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I'm glad you got away. That would have been a shitty situation for you to have been in, especially because it would have created some tension between you and your friend, since inevitably it would have been his fault for your inevitable arrest. :-(

When I was in high school, me and two other friends were drinking at someone's house in high school, just someone who's parents weren't home. You know how that goes.

We heard that the cops were coming, so all of us bolted and the three of us went to the car, which was around the corner. Unfortunately, there was another pair of cops in a car waiting for someone to leave the party around the corner, so a minute after we started driving we were pulled over.

My first thought was, "Okay, my friend who is driving is fucked, but how am -I- going to get out of this?" Thankfully, not only was my friend quite the eloquent speaker, being on the speech team really pays off, by the way, but he also gives the impression of Johnny good-boy-U.S.A., which I think made an impression on the cops and let him get away, somehow. Fucking lucky bastard. And me, too, I guess.

A side note: the guy who was driving also burned down our homecoming float junior year in high school.

I just got a shitty raise. Hooray!

congratulations for barely beating inflation pooter!

Congrat$! Be sure you fill your car with Unleaded Plus, but don't go to Premium Unleaded just yet mister!

Alright! No more ordering off the 'Dollar Menu' items!

@Rynostar - l o l Yours was the best. Thanks man. That actually made me laugh, real bad.

@Biff & inchemwetrust: thanks to you guys, too. I imagine that if the economy wasn't as bad as it is, they wouldn't fuck with me like this.

ah, was it like an annual raise? are you soon to be BelligerentPooter?

I though it was just an out of the blue "that'll do Pooter, that'll do" kind of raise. I know what you mean about annual raises and getting shafted though. BIFF SMASH!

Hey, at least you get a raise this year! ;)

The company I work for has had a freeze on pay raises all across the board since April - and the word says, it's going to be this way for a while.

Instead of a raise, I will get to work 2 days a week from home starting in 2009 and I'm good with that. A raise would be nice, very nice, but working partly from home is a decent compromise considering this time last year, I was afraid I was going to lose my job.

Yay for not losing jobs! And yay for you being able to work from home two days a year--that's awesome.

@Biff--yes, it was an annual raise. They gave me an okay bonus, so I should just be happy with that. A lot of people are out of work right now with the recession, so I'll just be thankful and move on. No BelligerentPooter here.

Although, I did find it a bit upsetting that the universe decided to deal me an $85.00 parking ticket... Five minutes at a fire hydrant has never been so expensive.

85 is a bit high for a parking ticket, must have to do with parking in a fire zone. I got so many of those at UCSC; the damn things cost more than my tuition.

I had a job interview today, don't know if it went good or bad, guess good since I cannot remember a moment where I felt completely mortified by an answer I gave. Although, there 2 people were interviewing me simultaneously, so that was a bit rough..

I'm sure you did awesome. Good luck with that, hombre.

You're in Danville, right?

yeah, sigh... yes i am. at least i don't live in a santa cruz studio anymore (aka a garage with a bathroom).

I'll keep an ear out on the off-chance that I hear about anyone that is hiring in your area.

Don't get down on yourself--this is being argued by many as the worst economic time for the U.S. in nearly three decades.

yeah, i hear that, i definitely wouldn't advise venturing for a new job at this point. thanks for you help pooter.

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help, stop that gingerly bastard!

Yep! All of our employees at our job had to get their raises before the thanksgiving deadline but it doesn't help them when their hours are cut. It's tough to find a job during the holidays season but I hope you nailed that interview and get the job Biff. And same here Pooter, I'm pretty thankful at my job as well, plus my boss already told me that she's giving me a promotion in January when she gets back from vacation.

My favorite job interview question: Why should you be hired for this job?

ah yes, or as they phrased it in my last interview: "What makes you stand out over other applicants?"

I would've loved to say "I'm over 6 feet, take a wild guess..."

a step stool!