August 25, 2009
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do women have an advantage?
so i usually try to get to work roughly around 7 so that i can find street parking. otherwise, i have to pay a crapload for a monthly parking spot. eff that. so i'm on my way to work this morning.. it was around 7:30, so i was running behind.. paranoid that that i would have to park like five blocks away, i speed.. weaving through the slowpokes. speed limit was 35.. i was going at least 50.. it was a dreary morning.. raining pretty hard..
anyway, as the story goes.. all of a sudden.. as i'm tailing the van in front of me (he was going like 20mph for goodness sake).. i see the lights flashing. effing cop was behind me.. it was pretty dark and he was driving an SUV so i didn't realize a cop had been behind me. frick!!! so i pull over.. he comes to my window and gives me a disgusted look. "do you realize how fast you were going?? how you were tailgating other cars? i was following you the whole time and it's people like you who make these roads unsafe. why were you driving like that?".. my mouth dropped. damn.... "i'm late for work"
"and that gives you the right to drive like a maniac?" he was pisssssssed.
"i need your license, registration, and proof of insurance" the guy was friggin rude. so i reach over to my glove compartment and retrieve a stack of junk.. haha.. i hadn't opened this thing in a while. and of course, i don't have the current documents!
the cop stares at me with his cold eyes.. "you should think about cleaning that thing out sometime, you know"
whoa. i thought.. of all cops who could have pulled me over.. i get mister jerkface. damnit.. what a prick..
"well? current documents?" he was getting so effing smart with me. and then it hit me.. my insurance is going to go up and i know they fine you hella for not having these documents.. so, i started to bawl.. he had no sympathy whatsoever. "when was the last time you were given a ticket?"
"a little over a year ago" i was sobbing.
"for what"
"speeding, sir"
he grabbed my license and walked back to his vehicle. it was about ten minutes later.. he walks up to my window.. "that's a $500 fine for not having a current insurance card.. $300 for not having your most current registration.. and you were going about 15mph over the limit so your ticket could be well over $1000. look, Ms. Lee, be careful.. will you? if you're going to speed at least make sure there isn't a cop following you like i was. i'm not going to write you up. where do you work and what do you do?
i told him as i was trying to keep the snots from dripping out of my nostrils.
"no more speeding" he smiled and proceeded to go his way.
was this because i started crying??
what if a dude did that? what if the cop was a chick? hmmmm.. all i know is that i am SO thankful.
Comments (11)
Probably good looking plus crying gave you an edge. =) By crying you submitted to the cops presumed authority and let him feel superior- plus it showed you had regrets for what you did.
If it were a guy he would have had to bawl as you did to have a chance (a lower chance) of getting out of it....or be a former member of the police force. =)
Absolutely, I know a girl who got pulled over for the same thing (60+ over speed limit, yea yea, don't ask,) she got off with a slow down miss (60+ over?!,) where I was one wrong comment away from being cuffed and impounded.....
them tear got the magic in them apparently
Sounds like he wanted to intimidate you, and by crying it made it seem like he broke you. A lot of cops I've come across are walking power trips w/ badges.
Regardless the reason, glad you're okay and your insurance premiums still intact. (:
You have to know that chicks have the advantage in that situation. If a guy were to start crying, the cop would tell him to "grow a set" and resume writing up a ticket. I once told a cop that I was on the way to say my final farewell to my grandmother who was dying at the moment. He didn't even bat an eye as he took his time writing me up.
Girls get free meals and get out of tickets occasionally, guys just make more money (in most cases).
Dude f*ck that double standard bullshit. A guy would have gotten all the fines added up and then some.
I had a friend who was an ex-cop that hated writing tickets unless the violations were blatant, regardless of who they were. Anyway I did a ride along with him once and you run into all kinds of people.
I wouldn't rely on that gimmick, as some cops get annoyed by it and will probably jack up your violations as a result.
nice. when a guy (like me) gets pulled over, the cop already knows he's going to ticket me.
Don't you know? Cops feed off tears. So once you started crying, he got his fill.
that's awesome that you got out of this one. so, of course, it helps to be a girl... but whatever! it doesn't take a feminist to notice that men always outnumber women in the top of almost every field. in my mind, it all evens out in the end.
It was your lucky day...maybe it was the beginning of the month and he was stressed about the quota or it was the end of the month and he already made his quota?