SPEAKER_00 0:02

Hey, and welcome to Boomers on the Edge. Some guys in their 60s who still think there's 60. Your hosts, Kat and Ron. Let's get started. Oh, here we go again. Police are coming after us. We got so many police stories that we're going for police encounters too.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Yeah. And uh why not you share with us your um police encounter that you're gonna do?

SPEAKER_00 0:31

Yeah, well my my uh my other one I wanted to tell is a little shorter. But uh I won't say the city that I worked in, but let's just say that if you heard of police encounters one, it was the same police department. Okay, okay. So because I was running around there in that area so much for work, right? Yeah, so one day I'm driving down eight, believe it or not, the same street, eight mile road, okay, and I'm speeding and I see I I know it's amazing. It's your grandpa's fault, by the way. It is. And what do I see? I see this I see a police officer coming at me in traffic, and I'm thinking, did he have me on there? But he's going the other way. You know, he's going head on, you know, in the other lane. He can't he can't radar me coming at him. I don't think he has me. So what happens? That's wrong thinking. Yeah, well, yeah, for the kids here listening. Right. He's he starts, he goes by me, and I slow down, of course. And I'm looking in my rear view mirror, and whoop, you know, he's doing a UI, and the lights are clicked on, and I'm like, oh crap, here he comes, you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

Does he do the little whoop-hoop?

SPEAKER_00 1:56

You know, I'm surprised. Oh, he was too far away by now. Okay, I'm like, I'm not waiting. I'm doing my same usual act, okay? Right. Okay. My same program. I'm not guilty. Like, I don't, I don't know you're after me. He's nowhere near me. Okay. Well, he turns around and here he comes speeding up and he's got the lights going. So I thought, hmm, I saw some people pulling into uh daycare. And you know how they have big lines and stuff? Yeah. So I pulled into the daycare line. Nice. Yeah. Quick thinking. Thinking he might drive by because he wasn't right on me. Okay. Right. So I pulled in there. Well, so did he. Well, he didn't pull in the line. He waited until I went through the line without the kid. I wasn't dropping off.

SPEAKER_01 2:43

I like that guy's thinking.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

And he comes up. You know, hey, roll the window down. Yeah. Cute act with the baby drop off. I don't see one. Yeah, you might have. That's what you said. No, I don't know why. I think I just looked at him like, hmm. Yeah. So I got caught on that one. Ticket? Oh, yeah. But I think I I think I went and fought it. I might I don't know what happened. I don't know if I got points or not on that one. He didn't like that move. Well, I haven't. I just said I was fleeing the cops. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:23

So what's your story? Well, it's embarrassing kind of. A lot of my stories are. Um, I'm driving to work. Uh-huh. Typical every day. I'm driving northbound and I come up to 15 mile road. I'm just about I have about six or seven cars from the intersection at a red light. It's a nice sunny morning. I got the window part way down, and it's really nice. I'm enjoying it. The music.

SPEAKER_00 3:45

You weren't running on the yellow line, were you?

SPEAKER_01 3:46

No, I wasn't running out over the yellow line. Thank God. But this was the same routine every day, right? So I'm sitting there, nice day. And then all of a sudden, a spider. A spider drops down from my visor.

SPEAKER_00 4:00

I think I remember this story.

SPEAKER_01 4:02

It drops down right in front of my face. Now I'm not afraid of spiders. Okay. Okay. But when this thing went right in my like right over like the bridge of my nose, right in my field of view, I freaked out.

SPEAKER_00 4:15

Wow. I mean, it would be a little shocking.

SPEAKER_01 4:17

I freaked. Yeah. And I I never believed that when someone said, Oh, I I thought I was stepping on the brake, but I stepped on the gas. Well, I did that. And uh, as I was trying to like shoe the spider out of my field of view, it would it would shock you. It was a little disconcerting. And uh what I did was I I kind of like like a little bit of close your eyes. I probably a little bit of close my eyes. I pressed the uh I thought I was pressing the brake, but I stomped on the accelerator and I rammed into a small uh GM Colorado pickup truck. Okay, and then that guy in the pickup truck slammed into a Taurus. Oh. And I'm like, oh geez, you know. So we all pull off at this grocery store that was right there on the corner.

SPEAKER_00 5:09

So you're like, what kind of idiot are you?

SPEAKER_01 5:10

No, I got out immediately. I coped the plea. I said, You guys, you guys, I'm totally at fault. When the cops show up, I'm gonna totally say it's my fault. I go. In fact, when you guys find out what happened, you're probably gonna want to take my man cart away and rip it up. Okay. So I told them what had happened, and sure enough, you know, the cops come and the guy in the guy told the cops that the that the spider was driving the car? Yeah. The guy in the tourist had taken off earlier. He like he didn't have enough damage to even worry about it. Okay. The guy in the pickup truck, he got to go through his whole accident report and all that with the police officer that showed up. And now it's my turn. I'm standing there and I got I happen to have my employment badge, uh, employee ID badge hanging around my neck at a lanyard. The guy says, Oh, do you work for that company? And I go, Yeah. And he goes, Do you know so and so? And I go, Yeah, I know her very well. And he goes, Well, that's my wife. Oh, wow. I go, really? And he goes, Yeah. I go, she does really well for herself. She's, you know, well respected at work and she does really well. I go for a for an environment that's kind of dominated by men, which in the defense industry it kind of was. He goes, Yeah, tell me about it. He says, I'm married to her, right? He's listening to his wife. Yeah. I said, wait a minute. Your last name is Jones. And he goes, Yeah. Oh, I think a relative of yours worked in our department one time. Oh, yeah, that's my cousin. And I said, He's like a legend in our office. So he was like an intern, and I go, they made him work like an ungodly amount of overtime to work on this project. When it was all done, and he should have made thousands of dollars in overtime. They gave him like a $50 gift certificate to the company store.

SPEAKER_00 6:52

And a free pizza or something.

SPEAKER_01 6:54

And he went into that company store. He was so pissed. He went into the company store and bought 150 cent refrigerator magnets. Okay. And then he walked around the. I mean, he was this is pretty gutsy for a kid that's an intern. And he walked around.

SPEAKER_00 7:12

I'm not sure, by the way, if this is a good political move.

SPEAKER_01 7:14

I don't know either. But he did get hired. He walked an intern and he did this? Yeah, he was an intern when he did this. But he was so pissed.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

They must have figured he had a lot of guts.

SPEAKER_01 7:24

He would walk up to each person and say, Bill, because you've been doing such a fine job, I got you a little I got you a little bonus. Oh? He goes, I got you two refrigerator magnets. And the guy's like, Oh, that's nice. That's very nice.

SPEAKER_00 7:42

What were they? What were they? Were they a corporate logo or something?

SPEAKER_01 7:46

No, well, they were uh like uh one of the products. Oh one of the products we made. Oh, I see. Okay. Makes more sense. It had a tank on the on the refrigerator. Got it.

SPEAKER_00 7:56

Being military and all.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

Being military and all. And then he was he comes up. I mean, and I know that my manager, not my supervisor, my my supervisor definitely can hear it. He's laughing his butt off, but the manager can hear it. And he's like, Ken, you've been doing a fantastic job this month, and I just want to know how much you're appreciated. I got you four refrigerator magnets. I did twice as good as the other guy. And uh, it was just hilarious. But anyway, so you told the story to the police officer to the police officer.

SPEAKER_00 8:27

For the audience, we're back now in the police officer.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

I was telling it to the police officer, and he looks at me and he goes, you know, I can't give you a ticket. He says, You're practically family. And I go, Oh, wow. I go, that's great. And so he didn't give me a ticket. Okay. I thought that was great. Yeah. So, you know, being real with the police officer, being honest.

SPEAKER_00 8:50

This is this is why you watch these YouTube things and you see people fighting and arguing. It's not worth it. It's not the way to go, you know?

SPEAKER_01 8:57

And he so he said that I was practically family and that he had never heard the spider story before. So that was a new one. So, you know, you be real and you be honest, and I took responsibility, just like you kind of did. Yeah. I took responsibility. In my case, the guy let me off.

SPEAKER_00 9:12

Yeah. In my case, he didn't, but the but the judge did. Yeah. But in uh uh our episode one.

SPEAKER_01 9:19

The important thing is you made the attempt, and that's the message we want to leave with the younger gentleman.

SPEAKER_00 9:25

And in the case where I tried to go to the daycare, I didn't try There was no kid. I don't know if there was a kid's a ghost.

SPEAKER_01 9:34

I don't know if there was any trust at that point.

SPEAKER_00 9:36

I'm thinking there might be how I'm not sure how honest that looked, but still a learning experience of what not to do. Right? Correct. Thanks for listening. Correct. Thanks. Hey, thanks for joining us here on Boomers on the Edge. We hope you'll join us again. And until then, have a great time. Thank you.