I woke up this morning bright and early and after hitting the snooze button on both my alarms several times, came to the realization that I was very hungover from a cheap wine binge last night, and possibly still drunk.
After stumbling about for about 15 minutes getting dressed and brushing my teeth, I drove to work. After getting off the highway, there is a "no right on red" sign to turn onto the road my workplace resides on. I look around a bunch for any coppers, didn't see any in my half-drunken stupor, and turned on a red. As soon as I did so, I saw a cop behind some trees on my right side coming up, waiting to pounce on such lawbreakers as myself. At this point I was so downtrodden that I was just like, "Ah, fuck it" and pulled right over into the little driveway he was sitting in and put my car in park.
At this point we both knew what I had done, and I was just like "yeah, sorry about that, didn't see you here, my bad." and gave him my licence and reg. without asking. It was pretty funny in hindsight, but it was just awkward when it happened. From the cops face It was pretty clear this had never happened to him before: Someone pulling themselves over before the cop had a chance to do it. He ran my shit just kinda looking at me in awe, and then gave me back my paperwork.
"Alright, I'm not gonna cite you cause I didn't have to chase you, but just be careful and don't turn right on reds, okay?"
"Yes officer. Thanks"
It was pretty strange, i wasn't too triumphant about it, because it was almost as if it never happened. The whole ordeal took maybe 4 minutes. Pretty awesome though, I guess the fine is like $200 out here.
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