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Originally Posted by Amail

Sitting around the table with some friends one night, the phone rings. It’s the sheriff’s station, they have my 16 year old stepson down at the station and would like me to come down. He and a friend of his were in an old car his friend had just bought that day, and got pulled over for something dumb and hauled in on possession of weed.

Once I got there, I was ushered into a small cubicle farm with Jeremy sitting in a chair looking very uncooperative and self-righteous. I asked him what happened, he said they got pulled over for no reason, and they didn’t have any weed. Uh huh.

I asked “Isn’t it possible that Chris bought the car not knowing there was a baggy of weed under the seat”?
He said “No, they can’t prove anything”.

I asked again, “Isn’t it just possible, cause this kind of thing could happen, that the weed was there without you guys knowing about it”?
He started to repeat his mantra when I suddenly saw understanding dawn across his face. “Yeah, I bet that’s how it got there”!

There was a sheriff standing nearby watching this exchange and you could see relief spread across his face too. I asked the sheriff if I could take him home and chalk this up to a misunderstanding, and he said sure thing, you guys can go.

Jeremy from that point on kept his nose clean; he and I had crossed into a new level of our relationship, and I gained a new level of respect for our local sheriffs as well.

It happens.

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