[Man in Black]

One time when I was 18. It was just an unlucky day for me.

My two friends,one of them being more or less a complete idiot, come and pick me up at my old house, as soon as I go outside and get in the car, a cop car drives down my street. Nothing too unusual, even though I lived on a side street and didn't usually see cops I did see them occasionaly.

They lived just a few streets over in the next neighborhood, so we headed that way to go to the gas station to pick up a blunt shell. Meanwhile we are smoking a pretty fat joint. I am in the back seat.

So we get to the gas station, right next door there is a cop parked at the carwash, just chillin there. My friend who is driving the car goes inside to buy the blunt. My other friend and I were smoking the joint when we pulled up, and apparently some guy on his way out of the gas station saw us and started walking in the direction of the cop. We put the joint out. My friend is taking forever to get in and out, and when he comes out we yell at him to get the fuck out of here, there's a cop just over there. He sees the cop and starts to panic.

He pulls outta the parking lot in a hurry and turns back into the neighborhood, then he runs a stop sign turning onto the next street. There is a fucking third cop driving down the street right in front of us. He turns his lights on and pulls us over. The officer takes a minute to get out of his squad car. Meantime, my dumbass friend is FREAKING out, he's close to tears and saying "We're gonna go to jail, we're so fucked." Apparently he had a decent amount of blow on him, quarter ounce maybe I don't remember. Other friend had a lot of different kinds of pills, xanax and vicodin probably. I didn't know about it up untill now.

So yeah he is freaking out and we're trying to get him to shut up and calm down, fatass bastard is like a 300 lb grown man and he is about to shit his pants in fear because we got pulled over. We tell him to just shut the fuck up and play it cool, just hand over the doobie and we'll be alright. I had thrown the doobie onto the floor of the car. So the cop finally comes up to the car after what seemed like 20 minutes and asks if we know why he pulled us over. My friend didn't even know he had ran the stop sign, he had just panicked when he saw the other cop.

Then the cop asks who's got the marijuana, he could smell it. So without hesitation, not wanting to risk my buddies gettin busted, I grabbed the joint off the car floor and handed it to the cop. He asked if that's all there was, my friend, playing it smart, went through the ashtray and handed him the roaches that were in there. So he writes my friend a ticket for running the stop sign and he writes me a citation for smoking the joint. Just me. Other friend got off scot free. He did chip in to help me pay the ticket though.

So a few weeks later I just go down town to the municipal court and pay a $100 fine. That was the end of that story. If it had happened a county over, it would have been worse. We probably would have got busted. But thank god we were in the right county because they have real problems to take care of. Can't sit for an hour and bust some young stoners while on the other side of town people are getting robbed and shot.

I looked up my name online in the court records, thinking I would have a criminal record now because of it, but I didn't find anything. So yeah it could have been a lot worse.

That is the only time I've been caught. I've been a little more careful since then. I should have been caught many more times before that but I have always managed to get away somehow. Can't win em all though.