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Downtown, after dark, I pull over a gray
SUV for driving without it's lights on.
I greet the driver, an office worker, with a smile.
Ma'am do know why I stopped you tonight?
She looks meekly at me and cringes,
"Because I was talking on my cell phone?"
In seven working days, I have had 3 uses of force.
I am feeling better. Friday was rough.
Ice and Advil are my friends.
G is retiring on the 6th.
He has time to burn,
so he has three day
works weeks until
his last day.
My brother, deputy dog,
is back in the saddle.
He has resigned
from the Liquor Commission
and has found a new pond
to work in.
So sore.
My knee is swollen.
My cranky leg is stiff.
I have a weekend to heal.
Traffic fatalities are down from 45 last year to 34 in 2018.
The deaths are lowest amount since 2014.
At six over minimums, the shift is fat
for the first day of the year.
As the sergeant said at roll call,
“There are no eye problems
on a 15 hour holiday.“
And with the first day of the new year, I am back to work.
