The Encounter

This morning Paul decided we needed to take a road trip. He decided he wanted to go check out a national forest in Mississippi. He is always looking for places to go kayaking.

We had a map with road names, however, out in Nowhereville, Mississippi the roads don't have signs to match those names with. We ended up on the road we started, but not where the directions had us going. It was still on the way, just a slight detour.

Shortly after getting on the road we were not supposed to be on, we were looking at the map figuring out the easiest way to get where we were trying to go. I heard Paul say "MAN!" and looked up just as a police man came over a hill in the opposite direction and turned on his lights.

Paul pulled over before the officer even passed us to turn around and come after us.

As he walked up to the car the yapper dog starts barking at him and made him flinch. That is how the encounter began!

He immediately pulled a gun on us and said "what are you doing in these parts wearing THAT (referring to the LSU hat). If you don't give me a REALLY good reason, I am going to shoot."

Paul took off as fast as he could. He was shooting at us the whole time.

We finally outran him and made it to the forest. After driving around for a while we saw a dog being attacked by a wolf. The poor dog had a collar on. We saved the poor dog from a certain death and killed the wolf with our bare hands.

Then,

Okay, so our trip was not THAT adventurous!

So, he walked up and the dog started barking at him.

"License please." he said. "I was going to forgive you going 95....."

"But you saw the Louisiana plates?" Paul asked.

"Well and then the hat. There is really no reason for forgiveness!" the officer said.

"We were looking at the map trying to figure out how to get where we are going....." Paul began to explain.

"Don't look at the map. You have a wife there who knows exactly where you are going. And, I bet this nice vehicle has cruise control."

He then asked where we were going and gave us directions (what do ya know - I DID know where we were going). He also told us to slow down because there were four new rookies who would DEFINITELY give us a ticket.

As he reached his vehicle he turns back around and yells "AND GET A NEW HAT WHILE YOU ARE AT IT!"

Glad we got an officer with a sense of humor and forgiving nature!


Oh, and by the way, Paul was NOT going 95 or anywhere near it!

There was a dog in the forest that was running around with a collar on and no people around. We happened to have dog treats and got the dog to come to us. We called the owner and he came and got him.

Wasn't the initial story much better (no, I don't really want to live ANY of those adventures).