Awkward Cops!

Alright. I may sometimes say that I like some excitement in my day, but pretty much always in the back of my mind I'm anticipating a normal, uneventful day of earthly existence. Every now and then, something happens that interrupts my normality zen thing. This one happened on my way to work.

So, you know that moment when you're driving and are trying to get into a turn lane at a red light? Every now and then, traffic stops JUST far back enough to prevent you from being able to merge.

I. Hate. That.

This is especially true when I can look over and see that the turn lane is completely empty. Well, I needed to get to work, and I got thrown into this situation as well as the driver directly in front of me. Not cool. The driver in front of me was in an SUV, and eventually decided to get up on the median a bit and cut around to the turn lane. I don't normally do this, but with me needing to get to work I did the same. As I got into the turn lane, I suddenly saw that there was a cop in the straight lane next to me. He was watching us both closely. At the time, I had forgotten that what this other driver and I did was illegal. The cop's light turned green. Now, if the guy wanted to nab me, he could have waited for the person in front of him to move forward, and then pull in behind me. He didn't

What followed was one of the most awkward and hilarious moments of my life...

Once he got into the intersection, he pulled into the middle of it with his lights on, waiting next to the left hand turn lane...MY LANE. It's a two lane left hand turn, and I was in front on the outside lane and the guy in the SUV was in front on the inside lane. Our light then turned green. Now, it was obvious at this point that the officer was going to pull over the first one he could. So what did we do? We sat there, staring at each other, each refusing to be the one to go first. This went on for a good 30 seconds. The funny thing was none of the traffic behind us honked. They were either sympathetic or stoned. Hopefully the first one. Finally, the cop gave up and pulled back into the straight lane. Oddly enough, he turned on his warning lights to do so. I guess police lights aren't enough anymore.

I totally get now that he had the right to give me a ticket, but who would voluntarily get themselves pulled over? Instead of getting us in a situation where we had no choice but to be pulled over, he put himself and us in this extremely awkward moment. Not only that, he let us decide who got to be pulled over. Seriously??

In the words of my mom: "He's straight out of police academy!"