Just a quick story as I’m spiralling in anger today about this subject.
I rear ended someone in the winter when I was 18. Snails pace, no injuries, no damage to me, $1400 to his bumper. He was super weird about it and called the cop immediately and also had a police report filed by 8 am the next morning.
Anyway, I went into the station as requested where he filed the report. The senior officer who dealt with me has always stuck with me. Not because he accused me of “probably kissing your girlfriend” when I hit the guy, which was super weird. But because as he had me waiting he was shooting the #### with another officer over his cell phone. He said the following: “you down in Forest Lawn?.... *laughs* I knew you would love it there once I took you”. It’s always bothered me. I’ve thought about different contexts that may have applied to that conversation, and none of them excuse belly laughing and talking about policing Forest Lawn out loud in the middle of a police station. Whatever the context, I don’t like it.
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