Thinking and thinking
There are so many stories that I think about during the day to write some make it, some just kinda go to the wayside. I have never been drunk and driven a car, but I sure have been stoned and driven. I have not done it in a number of years, learning that it probably was not the smartest idea of my life… For some reason I have always seemed to not get caught driving high.. It is probably because of the rush you get when you are suddenly in front of the cops in your car that brings you down.
One time I was drving home from a girlfriends house she was in university in atlanta, and I was working in Ohio. I was driving up I 75. I had just got over the state line from Tennessee I was speeding a bit and watched as the state patrol turned around from going southbound to be nice enough to pull me over. Well after the usual “do you know why you were pulled over question” I got a nice speeding ticket, and the look.. plus I had a roach in my ashtray, and was asked if I had some weed in the car.. After I showed the trooper the roach, (I learned to not lie the first time) he asked me to throw it into the grass on the side of the road.. which of course I did, and he asked if I was high, and that time I lied and said that it had been from the night before when I was in the Atl with friends.. Which is why I say most seasoned cops are cool if it is just a little weed..
Another time I was drving home from a friends, and saw the cherries behind me, and of course pulled over, I was really really fucked up, but pulled it together by the time he made it too my window.. Once again “Do you know why you were pulled over?” question, and I answered honestly that I did not.. Of course tail light out, and i just happend to have a few spares in the car.. I said yes I know, and I just picked up some, but it was too dark to change them.. which seemed to work for him, got the you are getting a warning this time thing..
all in all I would say I had been pulled over about a dozen times while high, and never once got any kind of crap from the officers, some I am sure knew I was high. I do not suggest it to anyone.
I always thought of drving while high like a video game, try to stay in the lines and stay as close to the speed limit as possible..
Well that is it for now, I hope to post more often..
Peace and smiles..
February 14th, 2006 at 11:35 pm
Politeness and doing and answering exactly as you are told works well, usually, although if I had ever been stopped back some years ago, when I was drunk many nights (no longer that stupid) nothing would have saved me.
I should think getting by with being a little stoned might be more likely, unless the cop was really down on drugs.
Keep the stories coming, Arday, I enjoy them.
Felix