IN the interests of not wanting to overdo commentary on the Voice, let me tell you about when my better half was pulled over on the weekend by a cop and accused of having a “shocking” traffic record.
Apparently she had been tailgating a police car for a couple of kilometres before he grew sick of it and pulled her up. Starting with the obvious – “Are you aware of the safe distance between two moving vehicles?” – he quickly moved to the meat of his argument and that she had clocked up 42 offences in her driving career.
“But that’s over 30 years officer,” she said in her silly defence. I can’t actually believe cops have that sort of information at their fingertip, which is mightily unfair. It’s like someone brandishing your Grade 10 results three decades later to tell you “and that’s why you’ll always be an idiot”.
Retelling the story to me, she said the policeman “seemed nervous”. I said that’s because he had no idea what he was getting himself into. A middle aged woman with an extensive criminal history, driving a black van on a lonely country road. I’m terrified. When I mentioned she was unlucky to be tailgating unmarked cop car, she said: “No, it was marked. He was just driving too slow.”