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Me: Let me get out the way & pull over
🚔 🚨
Me: Oh, this is for me
Me: rolls down window, ensures work badge is visible, turns down music
Officer: Walks up, "can you roll down your back window?"
@drewskiMD @AMLandryMD

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Me: Rolls down back window (now visible, 👶🏾 car seat with stuffed animal - bear to be exact)
Officer: "License and registration"
Me: License in hand...I need to reach into my glove compartment. (I knew if I was seen reaching for it as he was pulling me over, that'd be bad)

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Me: Hands it over
Officer: "Going to or coming from work?"
Me: Actually heading to, the Waltham campus
Officer: "You're going the wrong direction."
Me: I pulled over for you (then shows him my gps)
Officer: "How long you been here?"
Me: Boston? A year & change.
@chandan_khandai

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Officer: "cause you have a new license (REAL ID)."
Me: When I moved here, motor vehicle said I need one a new one.
Officer: "Is this car in your name?"
Me: Yes, it's a '05 Toyota Avalon, my parents helped me get it.
Officer: "So it's your car?"
#ThisIsAmerica @MikeMcClurkinMD

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Me: Always has been, it was with me when I moved to Baltimore for college, then Illinois for medical school, we've also lived in Wisconsin, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, but most recently Atlanta before Boston.
Officer: 😶 "What shade of tint is your window?
Me: 🤔 What?
@dr_uche_bee

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Officer: "What shade of tint is your window?"
Me: Hmmm, I don't know, I got that it back in maybe 2010
Officer: Pulls out device and checks the tint, device reads: 33% - "33%, looks darker, state law is can't be more than 35%"
Me: 👀 ok
Officer: Walks to the front of me car

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Officer: "Where's your license plate?"
Me: What?
Officer: "front plate?"
Me: Oh, in my trunk, want me to open it?
Officer: "No, you need your plates on front and back"
Me: Interally - but you pulled up on me from behind? Exactly why are we having this protracted conversation

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Officer: walks to his 🚔
Me: Looking at my clock recognizing, now, I'm late for clinic
Officer: "Alright, so I'm just going to give you a warning" (smiling). "You need your front plate on, and you might want to consider taking off that tint, somebody might give you a hard time"

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Me: Takes warning ticket - okay, thank you
Officer: "Have a nice day"
Me: Blank stare
#anotherdayinthelife #thisiswhyIgetpalpitationswhenIhearsirens
#technicallyneverwastoldwhyIwasstopped
#therapy