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One day a driver honked her horn at me in a rather rude and aggressive manner. She felt like I should not have swerved into her
oncoming lane a little bit to go around some parked cars. There was more than plenty of room for us to pass each other but she,
at that moment in time, felt like not moving over at all, like the whole lane was her birthright or something and she didn’t have
to share any of the road. She hadn’t noticed I was in a police car, which is why she honked at me. And I immediately realized
that I had an opportunity that I just HAD to take, on behalf of and for all you people out there who ever had a rude driver honk
at you quite unnecessarily; I could actually do something about that. In my case, it involved turning on all my police lights,
doing a hard U turn to get behind her, and have a little chat about just sharing the road and not being a bitch to other drivers.
She was extremely apologetic so no ticket was issued; I just really relished that delicious little “OH NO YOU DINT!” moment.

One morning I find myself ruefully staring up at firefighter with a hose, at the end of a large ladder fire truck raised above the
wet smoking ruins of a favorite restaurant that had caught fire in the middle of the night. That was in 2006 and I’m still mad at
the restaurant owners for not having a fire alarm in there; 30 employees lost their jobs when that place burned down. The whole
scene was a little awkward and professionally embarrassing for the fire department because, uh.. their main station was less
than 500 feet away and they weren’t able to save it.

Some gal in town was a co-host on some weird internet podcast, I can’t even remember what it was I just remember they talked
about weird things and conspiracy theories and catered to a fringe demographic out there on the interwebs, so it was no surprise
(to me) at all when a local creep decided to fixate on her, hard core. He decided to become a full-time professional stalker, which
of course freaked out his victim. She had to get a court order filed against him when his messages to her got super creepy.