...on a very remote stretch of 2-lane highway, a good 10 miles from anything. I managed to make it into the parking lot of an abandoned convenience store but there was no phone or anything, and this was the days before everyone carried a cell phone. And lo, I found that my recently purchased used car had no jack.
So I see headlights and stand by the side of the road waving my hands over my head, fingers spread and palms out. The flashing lights go on and I continue waving. The officers emerge, guns drawn, and it's clear things are very tense until they get a close look at me.
"Man, you shouldn't ever approach cops like that," the female officer said. "You could get shot."
"Well, I need assistance. What's the safe way to hail a cop if I need help?"
They hemmed and hawed for a it and it obviously developed that their training really didn't allow for a safe way to approach them at random. I thought, well that makes you guys pretty fucking useless but I said "Well, I have a flat and no jack and there's nothing around here, now that you haven't shot me could you at least call AAA for me?"
Which they did. But I have a feeling my chances of surviving that encounter would have been a lot poorer if I hadn't been white.
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