[Guppiedriver]

A friend of mine who I hadn’t seen for a while was in town so I picked him up at his hotel in the Cobra. We’re cruising along at 65 on a freeway with a speed limit of 55mph. Because this friend of mine (who happens to be a black man) and I are yack’in so much, I don’t notice my speed or the CHP tailing us. Finally he pulls right next to us for a minute or so, drops back and hits the lights and siren. My buddy says “here we go, the white guy gets the ticket and the black guy gets beat up” . I was convinced he was going to write me up so I put out all the lame excuses I could muster. “Didn’t know it was a 55, wasn’t paying attention, old friend in the car, blah, blah,blah”. My friend who has more insight to police procedures than I do, finally cannot contain his silence anymore and says to me “if you just shut up now, he probably isn’t going to give you a ticket!” I did, and he didn’t.