Dim lights out

My ex made such a good police officer later in life because he was such a border line case before he was a cop. He knew every excuse that people give because he has used them himself.  He got stopped once for his dim lights being out and he told the officer he did not know it. Being mouthy me, I said “remember I told you last week”.  So now anytime he wants to lie to an officer he gets out of the vehicle and stands if I am in the car where they can’t see the look on my face.  This will even make more sense when you read the post following about lights out.

We were driving from Pendleton, Oregon to Hermiston, Oregon after dark one night when my husband knew he did not have any dim lights so every time he would meet a car and they would flash their bright lights at him he would dim his real quick to show them that he did not have any dims.  Traffic was very sparse in the area.

We met this car and he dimmed his lights real quick to show he had no dims and right back bright again and by then he realized the car was a police officer.  My husband immediately pulled to the side of the road, grabbed a screwdriver and jumped out and was working on the light….yeah right. 

The officer turned around and had came back and walked up to him.  The officer said I see you are working on your vehicle and my husband said “Yeah when I met you I went to dim my lights and they went out, like to scared me to death so I thought I would pull over and see if I can fix them.”  The officer said “I wish everyone was that safety conscious sir, you have a good day”.

Well the police officer must have got a good laugh out of that one because you can’t fix you vehicle lights with a screwdriver, get a new light, change a fuse or something but not stand by the light with a screwdriver. I think he was just impressed with his quick thinking in trying to get out of a ticket and probably laughed all the way to the station. Many times I have had officers come in laughing because of some cock in bull story that someone gave them.