It's amazing to follow the logic of this cop. Nrabroad
only is he thinking about causing temporary problems, at 5 minutes into the tape, he says that the police will do far more: "Because we will ruin your career and life and everything else." And that was just for that kid asking in a surprised manner why the cop sounded so urgent about questioning him at the beginning.
Although for about seven times in the last decade, I have gone a whole year at a time with getting angry only once, I have had problems with a short-fuse occassionally in certain situations and have made huge improvements in keeping a lid on it, but this whole thing has really made me ponder how to quicken that process of becoming more level-headed. Because I once grabroad
very angry with a lady cop and even screamed at her. I will definitely need to fully correct that.
For about 7 times in the last decade, I have gone a whole year at a time with getting angry only once.
I had turned left onto a fast-paced road along the railroad tracks in Palo Alto. I accelerated quickly and went into the middle turning lane just in case a car was travelling fast just out of my sight in the direction I wanted to go. And just that happened. It was a cop, and she sped up even more to make it look close that I was cutting her off. I didn't merge into her lane, of course, and continued driving in the middle turn lane as an emergency maneuver, and yea, that's illegal, but it never would have been necessary if the cop hadn't been really speeding. The way I did it isn't really unsafe or anything because cars in the opposite direction never use that middle lane on that road, because of the railroad tracks on one side. So I don't do that anymore and will always come to a complete stop in the middle turning lane in these cases
She gave me the ticket, and I wasn't arguing with that lady cop, but I was just angry at her for how it went down and pointed out to her that she could have slowed down a little instead of speeding up. Also, I was still pretty sick from the flu and was in a bad mood already. No more. The next cop will Taser me or ruin my life or something. That sucks.