Sample Essay
Driving to the beach late one night my friend Rob decided to play chicken with the only other car on the road. As we slowly approached the vehicle on the small residential street Rob started repeating the words "please don't be a cop, please don't be a cop, etc."Of course, it was a cop and he pulled us over right away.
First he asked us what the hell Rob was doing back there. Rob coolly acted as though he didn't realize how close the cars were. The cop then asked us if we were all in school and if we'd been drinking. We answered honestly, that no, none of us had been drinking and that we were all college students. Rob also threw in that he doesn't drink at all. The cop chuckled at that and told us, "back when I was in school down at Stockton we used to joke that our blood alcohol content was higher than our GPA!" He lightened up after that and just made conversation.
I guess he was just lonely.
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