This one doesn't involve a Jeep, but a couple of very lucky breaks. Driving through an industrial park many years ago, came to a "t" intersection with a huge old tree to my right. Drove just beyond a stop sign so that I could see around the tree, and stopped, when a police car passed by in front of me, and swerved way over, and I mean waaayyy over, to avoid me. I turned left, he turned around, and pulled me over. Said I ran the stop sign. I explained why I did what I did, and he said something about him being extra careful because he was driving his supervisors car. Otherwise, he said it was not a big deal, then asked if he could see my drivers license and insurance card. He looks at my drivers license, and asks me if I knew it had expired about two weeks before that, and told me he wasn't going to write a ticket for the stop sign but that he had to ticket me for the expired license. He walks back to his car to write it up, then comes running back to my door a couple of minutes later saying something more important had come up and that he had to go. Made me promise to get the license issue fixed, and he took off. My next stop was the DMV.
Not two weeks later, I had a job interview in a nearby town. It had snowed the night before, the really heavy wet stuff that sticks to everything. Came up to another "t" intersection, this one with a stop light. Stopped, looked around, saw no traffic, and made my right turn. A block down, I'm lit up again. Pull over, and officer asks if I knew why, and said there's no right turn on red at that intersection. I explained that I was visiting, and didn't know the right turn was prohibited, and all the signs were clearly snow covered. He asked what I was doing in town, and after I explained he says "I'll tell you what, if you get the job and move here, promise me this", he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a business card for a realtor, "this is my wife's card. Promise me you'll call her when you're ready to move". I promised to do just that.
So, two weeks, pulled over twice, didn't get any tickets. Darn lucky. Figured I should play the lotter then, but didn't win. But hey, I didn't have to pay for any tickets!
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