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A citizen calls 911 to report a suspicious open door at their neighbor’s house. I go check it out. The homeowners had gone on
vacation in their RV, and had just neglected to shut the front door all the way and the wind blew it open. I remember this event
well because while looking through the house to see if there was a burglar, I saw two very interesting things: #1 was the waterbed
in the master bedroom. A 1981 classic, with the dark wood canopy, solid top, covered with gold-flecked mirror tiles. If you lived
in that era, you know exactly what I’m talking about. I was surprised to see a fully functional waterbed still in existence, pushing
35 years old. Then, in the basement, the #2 thing: the hot tub. That’s right, a full size hot tub, indoors. In the basement. Full of
water. You’d think there would be mold like crazy down in there but I didn’t see any. Although the atmosphere was a bit muggy.
Made me wonder what kind of activities went on in that place.

I pull over a car in front of a local business that sells plants but I won’t name them to protect their good name, even though I
got a little peeved when the owner stormed out to me in the middle of my traffic stop and told me to move because I was
blocking their driveway, which would not be a super unreasonable request but there was actually a LOT of room for cars to go
in and out past me. I told him I’d move in a couple minutes when I was done doing what I had to do. PS: If you ever want to or
have to talk to a cop, please don’t ever do it in the middle of a traffic stop. Because reasons.

Another traffic stop; I’m talking to the driver and I was at the front of the guys car so I could keep an eye on the traffic coming
at me, cause I was pretty much on the fog line. I saw an oncoming car – a Dreyer’s ice cream delivery truck - coming towards
me. He was about 400 feet away and I noted with growing alarm the truck was ever so slightly drifting closer to the edge of the
lane, to the right. As he got closer I could extrapolate the angle/distance/time and conclude that he was going to miss my patrol
car but come very close to hitting me personally by the side of the car I had pulled over. About 150 feet away the driver corrected
his course a bit to avoid me. I was making eye contact with him the whole time and he was looking at me with a funny look on
his face, which I interpreted as “I’m going to mess with this cop and see if I can freak him out a bit.” Meaning, I’m almost positive
he was drifting toward me on purpose. I wanted to then pull HIM over but in the few seconds I had to think about it, I realized
I couldn’t come up with any kind of a driving offense that I could prove beyond a reasonable doubt, so I let it go. Pretty alarming
and irritating though. I guess that guy had a problem with law enforcement.