Two nights back I had my first encounter with police. I was pulled over by a cop as my license plate light was not working, good enough. But he asked me ‘where were you coming from, sir’ and truthfully I replied ‘DejaVu’, a local pub. He asked in return ‘how much did you drink tonight’ and I replied ‘just one beer’. This is pretty much true as I hardly had one quarter of a beer and half a glass rum. He then told me that he wanted to make sure that I was capable to drive and asked me step outside for some drill. Later he checked my eyes, stability, and state of mind by the usual tests they do to check DUI. Finally, he used the breath analyzer to check the alcohol content in my body. I passed the entire test with flying colors and he let me go even without any warning. I was happy and so was he.
The entire story sounds trivial except two things that it was my first pull-over and the second and more importantly, this is the first time I was driving when I had something to drink. I am very strict about not driving even when I had just one drink. Every other time I had gone out to drink, my friends who were sober drove the car. I always think that the infamous ‘Murphy’s Law’ applies to me more than many friends and this incident was a classic example again. What are the chances that you get pulled over for (for the first time) for broken license plate light, when you were driving from a bar/pub with little alcohol in your blood (again for the first time).
This story reminds me of countless time I was stopped by police in India for driving moped without license as I was not 16 yet. But as soon as I turned 16 and got my license, I was never stopped by any cops even when I went and asked a cop for directions. It also reminds me of needing a few months old credit card statement when just a few weeks ago, I scrapped all the credit card statements that I had been saving for past five years and thought that now they would be of no use.
Well, I learnt my lesson and will not be driving when returning from bar/pubs.
The entire story sounds trivial except two things that it was my first pull-over and the second and more importantly, this is the first time I was driving when I had something to drink. I am very strict about not driving even when I had just one drink. Every other time I had gone out to drink, my friends who were sober drove the car. I always think that the infamous ‘Murphy’s Law’ applies to me more than many friends and this incident was a classic example again. What are the chances that you get pulled over for (for the first time) for broken license plate light, when you were driving from a bar/pub with little alcohol in your blood (again for the first time).
This story reminds me of countless time I was stopped by police in India for driving moped without license as I was not 16 yet. But as soon as I turned 16 and got my license, I was never stopped by any cops even when I went and asked a cop for directions. It also reminds me of needing a few months old credit card statement when just a few weeks ago, I scrapped all the credit card statements that I had been saving for past five years and thought that now they would be of no use.
Well, I learnt my lesson and will not be driving when returning from bar/pubs.
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