also, just remember this other experience I had with cops, not sure if you could call it a close call but it made me think...a few years ago, I had this annoying habit of smoking weed before I worked out...it might sound weird/stupid, but smoking weed always made it much less painful to weight-train and helped me get good gains when I was still working out (the main issue is that the only way you can sustain this over years is if you're fairly well-off and can afford all the weed)...Joe Rogan is a huge advocate for it, actually...but, anyway, like usual, I got very baked before heading over to the gym. I almost always smelled like dank weed BUT this time and most of the time in general as well I used Clear Eyes to make my eyes sober looking - you'd need a flashlight on my pupils to tell I was high by my eyes...well, I drove my car to campus and parked it. And then I rode my bike from the campus parking lot (which is out in the middle of nowhere) to the university's gym about a mile away. Well, around this time, my school had put in all these new rules for bike-riders about signaling for cars and slowing down for other people walking on the campus' sidewalks...so, I get close to the gym on my bike and I just BLAST through the intersection - I was very used to biking along this sidewalk and I knew I wasn't getting close to hitting anyone, but I did look reckless...so this woman police officer who worked for the university (i.e. she was campus PD - still legit at least at this school though) started shouting at me, 'Stop, stop right there!' lol I heard it in the background but I was like, 'fuck this, I'm just going to walk in' - I had to put my bike up and I was starting to walk away (into the gym) but the lady cop got out of her car and walked over to me and was like, 'Well, you went through that intersection pretty fast right there!'...I turned around and looked at her and said, 'I'm sorry ma'am, won't let it happen again' or whatever and she (of course) said, "Smells like you've been on smoking on that reefer, boy!!" And this is the weird part...I just looked straight into her face and said 'OK' with this innocent ass voice and a bit of that question mark lilt on the end like 'OK...?' and, after that, I literally just turned around on her and walked into the gym...about 5 min. later, I still couldn't believe that I was just able to walk away from a cop after being very directly accused of smelling like weed after having rode my bike...I mean, if anything, I was operating a vehicle while impaired from smoking weed.
My guess has always just been that she was trying to get me to admit to something about smoking weed after saying that I smelled like it...at least, where this school was, weed is illegal as ever, so if I had admitted to smoking it I would've likely at least gotten in some trouble with the school administration...
