I remember this one time getting pulled over by the sheriff as a younger tech. I probably was speeding a little, but the way this guy was acting you would have thought I spit on his Grandmother. I was driving a company car with the "How's my driving?" sticker on the back. The cop starting asking all kinds of questions like what's my supervisor's name, was I driving to a customer's office, etc. Then he lets me go without giving me a ticket. I thought this odd since the guy acted like a total prick from the get go. So later that day I head back into the shop and talk to my boss. Apparently the cop had called him and told him stuff like I blew his doors off on the freeway. An impossibility since I was driving a Toyota Tercel at the time and he was driving a 5.0 Mustang cop car. My boss told me how the guy ranted and raved in an apparent effort to get me fired. I also found out by my boss that the only reason I didn't get a ticket is because the cop had just come from court and left his ticket book at the station. Fortunately for me my boss at that time was a really cool guy and thought it was funny more than anything else. Some good-natured ribbing was the only punishment I got. LOL. The funny thing (or maybe sad thing) is that this is probably one of the best memories I have from my field tech days.
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