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How much of a joke is this?
Here in England, you can ask a (mostly unarmed) policeman for directions with no problem.
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Getting directions wasn’t the surprise - it was that the cop was willing to walk a block and a half with the OP to a transit station to find a map.
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse]
Arrrrgggggggg !!! ( Exasperated Pirate, you have a call on Line 4. )
Well? What did I miss? Nice art?
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And cute babies!
[QUOTE=gotpasswords]
Getting directions wasn’t the surprise - it was that the cop was willing to walk a block and a half with the OP to a transit station to find a map.
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10 to 1 it was coincidentally on the route to a pastry shop.
[QUOTE=Geobabe]
And cute babies!
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I missed my chance !!!
I missed my chance !!!
( one for each baby. 
)
Take them to Centennial Olympics Park tomorrow to frolic in the water. I’ll be the corpulent man with stringy gray hair and a greasy " I Voted For Cecil Adams " t-shirt sitting on the bench eating cheddar popcorn.
Every neighbourhood, sometimes every block, in Tokyo has little police stations (called “koban”) where there are usually 2-3 officers at all times. Tokyo police spend a great deal of their time giving directions (which is not surprising, given how damned difficult it is to find most places). I’ve even had to ask a police officer at 4AM for directions, when a taxi driver abandoned me some blocks from the place I wanted to be.
Its far too little/ too late to say, but I’ve always wanted to go back to Atlanta. If you get the chance, the cable-car trip to the top of Stone Mountain is neat. I remember the waitresses being so amazing there that my coffee cup seemed to refill as if by magic …
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]
The time before that, I was at a neighbor dividing up several ounces of pot on the table. The door opened and a uniformed cop walked in. While I remained pretty much paralysed, he came over to the table, filled and lit a pipe, and we smoked it.
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See, now that’s how a perfect world would work.
Cop: “Is that a pouch of weed there on your passenger seat?”
Motorist: “Uh, yeah … Want some?”
Cop: “Sure, why not?”
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse]
I missed my chance !!!
I missed my chance !!!
( one for each baby. )
Take them to Centennial Olympics Park tomorrow to frolic in the water. I’ll be the corpulent man with stringy gray hair and a greasy " I Voted For Cecil Adams " t-shirt sitting on the bench eating cheddar popcorn.
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That’s a bit of a trek for a weekday expedition with the boys by myself, but if you’ll be in town for another day or more, email me if you want to try to work something out.
[QUOTE=Mama Tiger]
I ran into a cop in the D.C. Metro today. Actually, I ran into whole crowds of cops – turns out there’s 25,000 in town for the annual memorial service to honor their fallen comrades.
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A cop convention is what I figured when I encountered a couple of Kentucky State Troopers at the Dunkin Donuts in Crystal City. When I asked where 'bouts in Kentuckty they’re from, about a dozen more uniformed officers strolled by.
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]
The last time I interacted with a cop I was in my home town for the first time in many years, and I saw a cop car cruise by. I looked at it for a bit because my dad had mentioned the cars had a spiffy new paint scheme. A few mintes later it pulled up next to me and stopped. The window opened and a voice called out, “Come over here… (pause wile I walk to the curb)… What the hell are you looking at?”. “The paint job”, I say. “Well, watch it.”, and he drove away.
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“Why? Is it going to change again?”