I had driven somewhere earlier in the day and gotten in an accident already... and then I was driving toward downtown when I rear ended a car in front of me. A cop was in the next lane and immediately pulled me over.

He started writing me up and then was saying how I looked pretty bad, and I said I was tired. He asked how much I'd been drinking and I was shocked and said, "None!" He told me I reeked of alcohol and kept writing the ticket. I realized that I'd had a 40 of Sam Adams, and I was a little woozy, so I was trying to walk very properly and not slur my speech and not stumble at all. He looked as though he might be planning on giving me a sobriety test, but he never did.

I continued on my way downtown and met up with one of my coworkers and his family, at which point they told me that the ticket they'd promised me had been given to one of the extra children they brought with them, so I couldn't go. (I don't even know what this event was.) I was infuriated because I knew if they'd just called to tell me that, I would've avoided two car accidents and my insurance premiums wouldn't have gone up. I stormed off and noticed the cop who'd pulled me over was sitting on the other side of a stone fence- watching me carefully, still trying to see if I was drunk.