Something Evil This Way Comes and it wears a uniform...

Today, the evil came in the form of a Sheriff's car, singing whistles and lights at me, over the 7th street pass. SHE, actually, a SHE-DEVIL in uniform, cold as ice, stopped me to tell me I'd been going 15 miles over the limit and driving 'all over the place'.  This UNIFORMED ICEBERG  took 20 minutes to write a ticket, had to have a back up car  with her, and then, kept harrassing and harrassing me to leave first.  I told her to just plain leave me alone.  Oh no, says she, I'm worried someone will turn the corner and rearend you.  I say, you couldn't care less about me.  (Plus, I am two houses down from the corner turn.)  You've done your deed, now, go and let me be.  Leave me alone!  She goes back to her car and waits some more.

So I spend the next 20 minutes crying on my own and does she leave?  Oh no.  She stays behind me parked.  Why?  I have no clue.  Nosy, I guess, or she just enjoys harassing 72 year old women. Or, she is just plain EVIL... She gets her back up car with her again and again asks me to leave.  I tell her.  I am not bothering  anyone.  I am parked on the side of the road, so, go and let me be.  I am in my own Valley.  The streets around me are empty and quiet.  I'll pull around the corner if that makes her happy.  (I do that.)  Her back up car leaves but she goes and hides in a driveway and waits and waits until I leave.  It's another wasted 20 minutes.

When I finally do leave, then I see her drive off in the opposite direction from me.  What is this 'ticket-writing game' about?  Playing chicken?

Has this female officer nothing better to do but harass the elderly?

I can only hope that someone will treat an over 70 year old person in HER FAMILY, the exact same harassing, ice-berg manner as she did to me.

She actually ought to consider retirement, considering all the wrinkles her face had.

Walking daily is important, I have learned.--as well as eating with friends!

Surprising stuff, I keep on learning day by day, as to walking, yeah, just plain walking and its role in keeping the brain active.

Add to that is the discovery that who you eat with and whether you converse and enjoy and help each other.   This sort of behavior ACTUALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE!  It helps the brain.

And then there is lycopene, a substance in a small number of plants, such as tomatoes, guavas, watermelon, and pink grapefruit. This small group of plants have a power to lengthen life, for some reason.  The presence of this lycopene is a sort of barometer of health--not a cause, however.

End of today's motor mouthing by me.