• mad_asshatter@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I live in a rural area, and my various vocations often required me to be out and about in the wee hours.

    Guaranteed that if another vehicle on the road was PoPo, I’m getting pulled over and screened.
    First question, always, “What are you doing out here at this hour?”

    It’s happened at least a dozen times in the past 20 years. The last 4 times I pulled over before they even bothered to light up. Had all the paperwork ready before they even stopped.

    acab

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      Being that prepared makes you even more suspicious. What are you hiding? Please step out of the vehicle.

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      For anyone getting ideas, don’t ever reach for the glove compartment or under your seat while the cop is walking up to you. They might assume you’re reaching for a gun. Just turn on your dome lights and let them ask your for your paperwork.

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    And the classic “it’s 3am, on a countryside backroad intersection. Surely nobody…”
    But yesbody! There it is, a car coming at full speed, exactly at the moment I’m about to engage on what should otherwise be an empty road.

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        Indeed. It was thirty years ago but I vividly remember the intersection and seeing the lights from my right and being like “well, fuck me! What’s this asshole doing on the road at this hour?”

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      I hate to admit it, but that’s me. Speeding down country backroads late at night is some of the most fun I’ve had, especially in my area where they’re really hilly and twisty.

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    I like to joke about how only the weirdos are at Wal-Mart after midnight (while there at 2 am buying “emergency” beer or something like that, of course)

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        Most of the 24 hour Walmarts and similar stores in my area stopped doing that during COVID, and then never did again. Most close at 10 or 11. I miss going into Meijer at 3am and getting… Whatever I wanted 🤷‍♂️

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            At the time it was so that they could sanitize everything in compliance with what the CDC was telling them. In 2020 and into 2021 they actually had a pile of people in the store cleaning every surface overnight. Then, like magic, they stopped.

            Now it’s because they can employ fewer people. We’re still beholden to places like that because we have to buy groceries. If they could get everyone in the city in and out in an hour they’d happily do it no matter what we thought. But competition being open later forces them to be open longer.

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          Yeah I was going to say I don’t know of any 24-hour shops anymore. It’s a shame too because I don’t understand how people who work night shifts are supposed to get anything done anymore it’s not like you can order online for delivery at 4:00 a.m.

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            I have made a similar discovery via similar methods.

            I dearly love my progeny, but occasionally there are things I miss from before this life.

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    Me going to the store for cigarettes. Also me, playing the Night Call song while doing so.

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    This is one of the best articulations of how my mind works. I complained about someone jaywalking today because I thought the light was about to change in my favor. It didn’t. I admitted to my partner that the jaywalker was right to jaywalk and I was wrong. But I had big “fuck-you” energy when I thought she’d be in my way.