Here's a long story made long- hmmm... On August 15th I passed the CO state test to become a cop (called the POST test out here). The last step of my Academy process, huzzah! On August 18th I got married. You'd think that with being so fresh from the Academy and so excited about trying to get hired, I'd be a good kid and all, but I was SO excited to get to my wedding that a Denver motorcycle cop caught me doing 70 in a 45.
Ouch. I made it to 23 years old without a ticket, but there THAT went. Well, hey, I wasn't gonna argue with the guy or bring up the POST test (that would probably make him say, "Well, you should know better, right?). I tried to be nice and smiled and said, "Hey, this'll make a pretty funny story, I'm on my way to my wedding!". His response was "License-registration-insurance". Seriously. Not "Hello", "Good afternoon" or even "Do you know how fast you were going?"
I thought, "Wow. I take like four thousand hours of Verbal Judo in the Academy and this is how it's ACTUALLY done? Jeez, I'm sorry I took all those notes in class
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Nah, he probably thought I was lying my butt off and just wanted to get out of a ticket. I only wanted the guy to laugh, feel sorry for me, and he could even still have given me the dang ticket! In all, he said less than twenty words during the entire stop. Probably figured the more he talked, the more that little jerk in the Volvo was gonna try to get out of the ticket
Of course, the Denver courts let me get by with 3 points and about $130 in fines. I even felt a little bad, pleading guilty to something LESS than what I'd done.
Anyway, the end result of the story is that when I DO get hired, and I catch a car going 25 over, and some guy says, "But dude, I'm on my way to my WEDDING!"- I might still write the ticket - but at least I'll smile and say, "Well, don't tell her until after the ceremony. Trust me on that one."
Ouch. I made it to 23 years old without a ticket, but there THAT went. Well, hey, I wasn't gonna argue with the guy or bring up the POST test (that would probably make him say, "Well, you should know better, right?). I tried to be nice and smiled and said, "Hey, this'll make a pretty funny story, I'm on my way to my wedding!". His response was "License-registration-insurance". Seriously. Not "Hello", "Good afternoon" or even "Do you know how fast you were going?"
I thought, "Wow. I take like four thousand hours of Verbal Judo in the Academy and this is how it's ACTUALLY done? Jeez, I'm sorry I took all those notes in class

Nah, he probably thought I was lying my butt off and just wanted to get out of a ticket. I only wanted the guy to laugh, feel sorry for me, and he could even still have given me the dang ticket! In all, he said less than twenty words during the entire stop. Probably figured the more he talked, the more that little jerk in the Volvo was gonna try to get out of the ticket

Of course, the Denver courts let me get by with 3 points and about $130 in fines. I even felt a little bad, pleading guilty to something LESS than what I'd done.
Anyway, the end result of the story is that when I DO get hired, and I catch a car going 25 over, and some guy says, "But dude, I'm on my way to my WEDDING!"- I might still write the ticket - but at least I'll smile and say, "Well, don't tell her until after the ceremony. Trust me on that one."
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