Oh brother. Funny how things that happen to them happen to nobody else. I got into a fender bender in college (not my fault) and the responding officer wrote down my info because his car's computer wasn't working. I went back to my apartment in university housing and was chatting with a friend & my roommate about an hour later with roommate's bong and a bag of dope sitting out on the coffee table. There was a heavy odor of pot in the air. All of a sudden a knock sounded at the door. And we did what we ALWAYS did: yelled "Come in!"
Silence. So we yelled again, louder, "COME IN!" Still, nothing.
So, I got up, strolled to the door, yanked it open, and found two uniformed officers standing there, looking for me. Apparently a traffic class I rescheduled got screwed up in the DMV system and my license was suspended, unbeknownst to me, because my parents had moved that year and I was too irresponsible to put in a change of address. The certified notice had been returned.
They told me they came to arrest me, but took pity because they believed I really didn't know. They issued me a summons to court instead. I KNOW they smelled the pot when they were standing outside the door, so I KNOW they also saw my roommate scrambling around like a moron trying to hide it. They ignored it because they HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO.
Stupid DUmmies. And my Mother, a liberal herself, wasted no time in pointing out that if I hadn't gotten all the speeding tickets that necessitated the traffic class in the first place, I wouldn't have had the problem. In other words, it was my fault. I keep telling her she's really a conservative at heart.
