To Serve And Protect

It's 3:45 in the morning, we had a long day on Sunday (See previous post) and it took me longer than usual to fall asleep. All the sudden I hear a noise, very unique noise, it sounds like a horse riding in our street (all I can think of is that the mounted patrol is in my street, remember I'm not fully awake) I have to wake up in an hour fifteen minutes so I ignore the sound trying not to wake up. The noise fades away and then comes back and stops right in front of our house and I hear loud voices (We love to sleep with the windows open during the summer, fresh air is nice) "Great the mounted patrol decides to stop a pedestrian right in front of our house". I open my eyes a little bit and I see police lights reflected on our walls "wow, I didn't know the horses had those lights too..."
Then I realize what's going, the person being pulled over has a flat tire, "good" I think "there is not much to argue, they'll leave the car and give her a ride". Well, no exactly, for the next 20 mins I hear more about this woman's life than what I needed to know. The cop kept questioning her about things irrelevant to the flat tire. By now I'm fully awake, "couldn't this happen on a Saturday or Sunday? why Monday?"
Well now that I'm awake I got my camera and took a couple of pictures, hoping for something exciting to happen and become famous because of my amateur video footage. No such luck, I get back to bed and lucky me I fall asleep on the average time (7 mins) just to wake up to the alarm clock in 50 mins.
Now I'm at work trying to figure out a way not to fall asleep. Coffee doesn't do anything for me, I usually drink a cup of coffee after lunch everyday and I still feel sleepy. Energy drinks, no way, I've only had energy drinks three times in my life and every time I had acid reflux, so, no thanks. I have some Vojo energy mints in my desk, is supposed to give you a kick along with a nice breath, well the mint breath is true...I'm still waiting for the energy kick though.
On the positive side is good to know that the police is still doing its job at three in the morning. I always pictured them sleeping parked in front of a convenience store with a donut in one hand. This is the first time it happens and hopefully the last, at least for a long time...Thanks SPPD!









Posted in: , , , on 7.23.2007 at at 03:45