Although driving is our favorite thing in the world to do and is normally filled with care-free joy, there are obviously plenty of moments when being a car is the most stressful time of the week, or month, or year. The law has a lot to do with that. As soon as you hear that horrific sound, peek into your rearview mirror and see those flashing lights, your heart starts beating, your stomach sinks, and your brain runs through a laundry list of emotions and scenarios. We're here to run down those scenarios with 11 Thoughts That Go Through Your Head When You're Pulled Over.
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Should I try to run?
FUCK!
Pretty much everybody's first response to getting pulled over is anger. Anger or panic. "WHY ME!?" you wonder (this applied most when somebody pulled me over on a moped for "speeding" one time). My response:
But anyway, why you? Well, you, because you were speeding, didn't have a seatbelt on, were changing lanes without a blinker, and you rolled through that last stop. Just becuase the laws are inconvenient, doesn't mean we can ignore them, no matter how badly we want to.