A dirty trick
So I was leaving a most excellent Flipside decompression party last weekend out near dripping springs. It was around 3:30 AM. I pulled up to a left turn traffic light. The light was red, so I waited around a while. Then I waited some more. And then I waited even still more. This was a looong light. Then it starts a whole new cycle of the light without ever giving me a green. About this time, a car pulls up behind me. It takes me a second, but I realize that it's a cop.
Without the cop there, this is about the point I would have carefully checked for cars in every direction, and gone ahead and run the light. But now I have to wait and see what the cop does. I might have tried to signal to the cop that the light was foobar, and asked what I should do, but there were several reasons I didn't think this was a good idea.
I sit through four cycles of the light waiting for the cop to do something. Finally, he pulled up beside me and told me I could go on through, then he blasted through the light. So I followed him. The thing that freaked me out most afterwards, is that I didn't even bother to look to see if anyone was coming. It just seemed natural to follow the cop blindly.
I have to wonder if he was intentionally lurking there waiting for people to get stuck in this catch-22. Coincidentally, I just started reading Catch-22.
On another note, this new PDA cell phone I got is dangerous. I keep being tempted to post Twitter-like not-quite-one-liners to LJ.
Without the cop there, this is about the point I would have carefully checked for cars in every direction, and gone ahead and run the light. But now I have to wait and see what the cop does. I might have tried to signal to the cop that the light was foobar, and asked what I should do, but there were several reasons I didn't think this was a good idea.
I sit through four cycles of the light waiting for the cop to do something. Finally, he pulled up beside me and told me I could go on through, then he blasted through the light. So I followed him. The thing that freaked me out most afterwards, is that I didn't even bother to look to see if anyone was coming. It just seemed natural to follow the cop blindly.
I have to wonder if he was intentionally lurking there waiting for people to get stuck in this catch-22. Coincidentally, I just started reading Catch-22.
On another note, this new PDA cell phone I got is dangerous. I keep being tempted to post Twitter-like not-quite-one-liners to LJ.