Again

After many days of trying to write something on my blog, my internet finally cooperated on an interesting story.

So I'm driving to Mawe Hai this morning, and I won't be caught again with my doors unlocked or windows open (read the bribe post below if you're confused) that are not occupied by people, so this time when I was stopped, no one could get into the car.

I'm on the main road this time, but at the same intersection as before. I get stopped in the middle of the road to let people cross the street. This has happened many times and I've thought before that this would be a good time for one of the police to decide to stop me, but so far I've been lucky. Today after letting the kids and women carrying 5 gallons of water on their heads for miles on end cross the street, the yellow clad police man motions for me to pull over. Being the upstanding citizen I am, I do and roll up my window a good two thirds of the way. Now he can't reach in here, and all the other windows are up and doors locked.

He comes to the window and I immediately say "why did you stop me?" and he asks for my license. Just then who shows up? The guy in blue I talked to before. "Again!" I demand and he smiles and sticks his hand in the window for a shake saying "hello." By this point I'm frustrated at being pulled over for nothing, yet am also laughing at this guy who ripped me off 10 dollars all of a sudden being my buddy. The first guy asks for my license again and I said "why? He saw it last week," indicating the other guy, but I got it out anyways. I opened it up and showed it to him from well inside the window so he could see it but not take it.

The blue guy said something about driving lessons at this point and I said no, I'm going to the field to work and I didn't do anything wrong, why did you stop me? At this point the yellow guy indicated he was done with the license and I took that as my leave to go so I said thank you and drove off without looking back. It was a bit interesting, and I was laughing about it as I drove away, but also my heart was pumping a bit too. Nothing like getting pulled over for no reason to elevate the blood pressure.