I Fought the Law

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I Fought the Law
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Zucchini Bread Bribe

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My husband have lived together since we were 17 and 18. Our first place was a one room hovel in a "extended stay hotel", ran by a tweeker landlord who didnt care what anyone did, somlong as they paand rent. We didnt have our own kitchen or bathroom, they were "communal" for an entire floor. One day, we decided to deep clean, and my husband threw out some old prescription bottles from when he got his wisdom teeth pulled with his name on them. He went to work, and I didnt think much of the empty prescriptions in the trash. This was few days before Christmas. We were spending Christmas day at a friends house, and since we couldn't afford gifts for her and her roomates, I decided to bake zucchini bread from a recipe my grandma gave me instead (it was the best I could figure to bring to show out appreciation when there was 5 people in the house). I even searched out a nice looking bread pan at a thrift shop. Anyways, while I was guarding my bread in the oven from other residents, the cops showed up. Since I was there, they decided to question me about some illegal activities one of the neighbors was doing. I honestly didn't know anything about it, but the officer still insisted on questioning me in our room so others couldn't hear us talking. He spotted the empty bottles of pills in the trash can, ID'd me (and saw I was underage), and saw it wasn't my name on them. In the meantime the other officer had heard the oven timer go off and turned off the oven as not to start a fire. The cop questioning me didn't believe that the prescription bottles weren't something I stole/bought illegally and was about to run my name to see if I was a runaway. He called the other officer into the room, and upon entering the second officer mentioned that whatever I was making smelled really good. They looked at each other, and the first officer asked what I had in the oven. I told them zucchini bread. They looked at each other again, and the first officer told me if I let them take the bread, they would "forget about my age and the pill jars in the trash". Needless to say, the bread went with the officers, pan and all. All my friend and her roommates got for Christmas from us was a ridiculous story on how I "paid off" the police with the bread I had made them for Christmas for doing absolutely nothing wrong.

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