So if you haven't read Chris's account of our drive up to see my grandma last week, you need to start by reading that now. Then come back here, because I'm not going to repeat it, just add to it.
You back? Okay. So being pulled over by the police 3 times in 4 hours is Nones The Cool. I was freaking out by the end. I knew we weren't speeding, but here were these cops insisting that we were speeding, and treating my husband like a criminal, patting him down and making him sit with him in the cruiser while they make sure he's not a wanted felon, all because they say we were driving 64 in a 55. (And let me take this time to say, for all you haters out there who have already decided that we must have been at fault if the police pulled us over, that Chris's cruise control was set to 60. Going 5mph over isn't illegal. And my boss, who is awesome, let us borrow his TomTom last night to check our speed, and it turns out our spedometer is off by 2mph, so we were probably really going 62mph. NOT 64 like these cops insisted. That's a big difference too, because you know a cop isn't going to pull someone over for 7 miles over, it's not even worth it.)
It was really ridiculous. I'm pretty sure that the Indiana police were looking for something in particular... either specifically looking for a car that met our description (which is what it felt like) or maybe they were specifically targeting a certain group who tends to drive cars that look like ours? I don't know. I'm also pretty sure the last guys who pulled us over and said we were going 64 knew they were lying but wanted a reason to pull us over. When I said to Officer #2 (while Chris was in the cruiser) "Our spedometer must be off, because I know he was only going 60," the guy just said "Or he was lying, and didn't want to admit he was going 64," like there was no way they were wrong, AND there was no way our spedometer was wrong. We MUST be lying, because Chris is bald with a long ghoti. It was also weird when they got the confirmation over the radio that Chris's ID came up with nothing, the way the cop assured me "Well, there's not a warrant out for his arrest, so you're fine." He told me like this was NEWS, that I would be happy to hear. I just stared at him like "Well no kidding. I knew that before you did." And THEN that's when they wanted to search our car. After all this other crap, they are still so determined to find something because apparently we fit some bullshit profile, so we MUST be carrying drugs. But, thank goodness for my sanity, after questioning us extensively they decided not to tear apart our car to look for the non-existent drugs.
After all this nonsense, the only thing I can say is that, okay fine, they're doing their job and if they were looking for a car like ours (which is the only reasonable explanation), then sure, pull us over every hour, but when you realize we're not the people you're looking for, just freaking LET US GO and don't search for reasons to give us expensive tickets or waste our time searching our car. Really. I would be much less pissed off if these guys were just honest about what they were doing. I can't afford a ton of meaningless tickets because some other jerk did something with a green acura integra or something. It's just unreal.
That's all I have to say about this ridiculousless.
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