I benefited from White Privilege tonight.

It felt nice. It felt right.



I needed to get some gasoline, so I head over across the state line to Oklahoma where gas is almost 30 cents a gallon cheaper at the moment and the closest place to me that has no-ethanol gas just happens to be over there too. I fill up and proceed to pull out onto the highway. For some dumb reason I don't even stop, I thought the car coming was slowing to pull into the gas station so I just pull on out and gas it. The car doesn't turn into the gas station and I pretty much cut him off. I look down and all of a sudden I'm doing 8 mph over the speed limit, I hit the brakes and the car behind me runs up on my bumper. Immediately I knew, "damn I pulled out in front of a cop.", bloop bloop he lights me up, I change lanes and drive on a little ways until there was a good place off the road to pull over.

I pull over, turn the engine off, toss my keys on the dash, and place my hands at 12 o'clock on the steering wheel and wait. The officer waits a bit before getting out, I presume he runs my tags. I see another cruiser pull into the parking lot on the opposite side, and a tow truck just so conveniently pulls in behind the officer that pulled me over. So I just know this fricker is going to find some reason to hassle me and they were ready to impound my car and hit me with a DWI. (I was not drinking and haven't had a drop in about a month)

The officer finally approaches I tell him my wallet is in my front pocket and ask if I can get out so I can retrieve my license for him. He asks does your window not roll down? I tell him I put my keys on the dash in front of the steering wheel, and I'd have to start the car to roll the window down. I got an insurance renewal notice for my next 6 months of my policy just a couple days ago, I hadn't even opened the envelope but I did grab it and it was sitting in my front seat. So I open up the envelope and give him what they sent me.

He questions me about my drivers license and my car tags being registered in different states. I told him I was going to switch the plates when they expired if I wasn't back living in Oklahoma, so he gives me a little lecture about 30 days in every state blah, blah, blah.





After maybe half a minute tops, he just comes back and tells me he's giving me a verbal warning and didn't even mention that I wasn't wearing my seatbelt. I apologize for not paying enough attention and tell him I'd get the plates taken care of and I wished him a safe night.

I just knew this small town cop would find something to write me a ticket for. to the cops for being worried about bigger fish than my oblivious arse.