It's near 2pm, I'm in downtown Seattle, on my way to a meeting, using the bus lane. Said bus lane is restricted to buses from 6-9AM and 3-7PM. So a cop flashes his lights, I pull off into the parking lane, he stops his cruiser on the bus lane. I turn my van off, lower my window... oh, the cop is approaching on the passenger's side, so I reach over & lower that window... The guy has a ton of decorations on his uniform, he is asian, pretty much all gray, & looks friendly...
Cop- I'm pulling you over b/c you've been using the bus lane for the last 3 blocks. Do you want to tell me why you are doing that? (cop rests his forearms across the open window, interlocks his fingers)
JC-B/c the lane is unrestricted from 9-3, according to the signs (I point to a sign ~200ft away)... right?
(Cop looks at sign for a couple seconds... then looks down at the ground in front of him)
Welllllll... looks like I better do my homework before I pull people over, huh....?
(I kind of just smiled, I didn't want to say anything that would come across as being a smart ass. Cop raps his hands on the inside of the door, looks around in the van...)
Hey, tell me about these vans...
What would you like to know?
At this point we proceed to have a friendly chat about engines, and cost of maintenance, and mechanics in Seattle, and Syncros, and the Z-bed in the back, and cargo capacity, and so on, and so forth for about 10minutes. I am now late for my meeting, and the cop has been blocking traffic and the cruiser still has the lights on. I end up having to tell him I need to get to a meeting, and he apologizes for keeping me, shakes my hand, and that's that...
Funny...
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