Fucking Pigs

May 4, 2011
Random Erdem story:
I think this was when we were in college (or possibly senior year of high school) and home for vacation. Erdem decides to drag us along to some Turkish place out in Long Island. Out as in Suffolk out, shit's far. We pack up in his Ford Explorer, top down, ridin' out. We get there and skeeved out that it's basically a convenience store, not a restaurant, and don't get anything. I do remember grabbing a free Koran though.
Instead, we go to White Castle and order a shit load of food. Miah and I eat like fiends as Erdem drives back. The whole trip somehow took 2 hours or so despite not sitting down and eating anywhere. It was just motherfucking way out there on the Island.
Not sure if this is even a good story, I'm just in some White Castle mood.

May 5, 2011
I'm on my way to work and drive the way that I usually do. I'm literally 50 feet from my job and there's a bullshit Stop sign that is not even for an intersection, it's for a weird curve thing that the community has.
I'm usually really good about awareness of cars around me, even checking my rear view mirror for no reason, but I was a bit focused on remembering the lyrics to a song on the radio. I stop a bit "insufficiently" for the BS Stop sign and get pulled over. Great.
He tells me that I ran through two! Stop signs and was driving 38 in a 25. I had no idea what he was talking about when he said two Stop signs. He came out of nowhere, so he must've been stalking the Stop sign since the previous intersection. (Cops in Kensington are notoriously hiding at the worse place of an intersection, so that even if you stop a little short, you won’t notice until the cop notices and pulls you over for it before you can see him).
I would argue that the first Stop sign he said I “blew”by did not happen. Next two, I can't really argue. Then again, he did purposely follow me after the first stop sign to watch (possibly wait) for me to break more traffic laws. For the speeding, if he really wanted to be a stickler for that, I guess he could, but go find someone who isn't driving down super long residential roads at a reasonable speed instead of fucking 25 MPH. I tried driving that on the way home, I’d have cars honking behind me.
He ends up giving me a ticket for the first Stop sign. I'm not going to argue it because my case gets worse (though it does not actually have bearing on the actual ticket) if he shows up and says that he let me off for the latter offenses (which I actually feel are more legitimate). I wouldn't want the speeding one though because that is a worse offense than a Stop sign and he said he “let me off” of that one.
I don't know, it just sets me a shit mood because I’ve been recently taking a day off of the week from work, to relax and enjoy myself, but I realize that I should really be saving up money, so I'm back to five days a week. I'm also trying to spend less, which is basically on when I go out to the city, so I need to keep that in check. I have to mail in the ticket for them to punish me, so I don't actually know how much the ticket will be for, but it probably will be half a week/a whole week's paycheck? Great.
Just a silly community. They have their own cops that have to stalk Stop signs. I reasonably Stopped at one and he had to follow me to get more dirt on me that I won't argue my ticket. People are just trying to get to their jobs. Fucking pigs.