The law has caught up with me. My jig is up. I have a record now.<\/p>\n
All these years, I’ve worked to keep my public reputation looking good.<\/p>\n
Appearances are deceiving.<\/p>\n
One day, you live high on the hog. Then with one misstep, you find you’re that much closer to facing a grand jury.<\/p>\n
Of course, I’ll take the fifth, and hope my attorney can get me off. Or at least reduce the charges.<\/p>\n
But in case I am hauled off to the hoosgow, I hope someone will carry on the blog in my absence. My password is the same as the bank’s safe combo.<\/p>\n
Humpty Dumpty’s egg shell world came crashing down when I swerved to miss the truck.<\/p>\n
The truck was backing out of a driveway, crossing one lane of traffic and reversing toward my lane.<\/p>\n
It was dark (us evil dooers like the cover of darkness, you know). And since I didn’t want the truck to damage my car (with all the goods inside), I swerved a little to the right to avoid him hitting me. I didn’t know his intentions, see?<\/p>\n
It turned out that he was stopping in the center lane, and I would have been fine. So I moved back into my lane as I continued on.<\/p>\n
It turned out I had a cop tailing me.<\/p>\n
The lights turned on in my rear view mirror. I thought they’d just want to pass me, off to catch some real punk who was shoplifting spray paint down at the Wal-Mart. But as I signaled, moved to the right lane, and slowed down, the lights followed me to the right lane, and stopped behind me.<\/p>\n
The jig was up. The long arm of the law had my number.<\/p>\n
I rolled down my window, and put my hands at 11:00 o’clock and 1:00 o’clock. I sweat bullets as I waited for my fate.<\/p>\n
The police lady appeared, shining her flashlight in to blind me as the interrogation began.<\/p>\n
“Did you know you have a tail-light out?”<\/p>\n
“Uh, no. No, I didn’t!”<\/p>\n
“Yeah, your driver’s side tail light is out.”<\/p>\n
“Oh, ok” I said, breathing a huge sigh of relief.<\/p>\n
She shined her light around the car, looking for some other offense. But I had the goods safely hidden, and she didn’t spot them.<\/p>\n
She asked for my license, and I handed it over. She ran my number, and my plates, and found that my alias was clean.<\/p>\n
And I was on my way with a warning.<\/p>\n
Two different times later, I checked out that taillight. It works just fine.<\/p>\n
The cops were looking for an excuse to try to get the goods on me.<\/p>\n
But for now, I’ve outsmarted ’em.<\/p>\n
Justice will have to wait until another day.<\/p>\n
Like the day they read this blog.<\/p>\n
And then the gig is up again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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