Thursday, March 3, 2011

Really Now?

So I was walking back to my dorm today after my class finished.

Luckily the teacher for my child and adolescent psychology class decided to let us out of class a few minutes early since it was such a nice day and she wanted us to enjoy every minute of it that we could.

Anyway, I was walking back to my dorm, and on my way there is a large stretch of metered parking spaces in front of a building which houses some of the largest lecture classes on our campus.

I was walking along, minding my own business, and suddenly I encounter a meter-cop starting to write up tickets for a few of the cars parked at these meters. Now I knew for a fact that the people who these cars belonged to were undoubtedly in class in one of the huge lecture halls, and they were also undoubtedly going to finished with their classes *very* soon. When I say very soon, I mean within the next 5 minutes these students would be rushing out of their classes, hopping into their cars, and most likely leaving the campus as fast as they can.

For some reason, thinking about this meter-cop giving hundreds of dollars worth of tickets to students who probably can't afford it (who in college can really afford anything else), especially when they would be moving their cars soon anyway really infuriated me.

Reaching into my pocket, I felt around for as much spare change as I had. Remarkably, I had about two dollars in change (thank you McDonald's for being dumb last weekend and running out of single dollar bills). As quick as I could, I started walking down the sidewalk in front of the meter cop, putting money into all of the expired meters. The response that I received from the cop was quite priceless. Not only did he give me a look of contempt of which I have not received in some time, but he appeared to be absolutely livid.

There was of course, nothing that he could do about the matter, as once I put the money into the meters for these people who I did not know, they were saved.

So now I have two questions to ask...

Why was the cop so upset about this? I understand that he loosing out on some money for the state, and I guess for his precinct... but seriously man, does he really enjoy taking the money out of college student's bank accounts like that?

Secondly, would you do the same? Share a bit of change with someone that you don't even know like this? What would you do in this situation?

Thanks for reading, peace.

21 comments:

  1. Man, you did a great thing. That cop was an asshole tho.

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  2. I totally would and have done it before
    I saw a meter cop also writing out tickets
    downtown though and I saw a meter that was expired so i put in ten cents since thats the only one i saw expired out of like 6 i passed
    felt good afterwards lol
    Take care

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  3. I dont know why the cop was angry about what you did but you sure did the righ think! I m sure all the students would thank you a lot and invite you for mcdonalds haha

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  4. I almost never carry change on me, but this is absolutely AWESOME. I salute you sir

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  5. I assume cops become cops because they are angry at everyone and everything. This way they can be an asshole all they want and nobody can stop them.

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  6. If this is true, you're a very interesting peron lol. That was kind, but I'm not sure I could have done such a thing. Then again, it was spare change huh.

    The cop was livid because he believes in the virtues of the system. Nobody is above the law. In fact, how sure are you that those students deserved to park there?

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  7. You are awesome for doing this.
    I probably wouldn't do it unless I just really wanted to mess with the cop.

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  8. Eh, it is what it is. More power to ya.

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  9. He may have seen it as a defiance of his authority. If there is one thing about cops that is true, it is that they LOVE being in authority.

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  10. Yeah, in my opinion he probably didn't care about the money so much as losing his authority. He probably felt like you were doing it just to thumb your nose at him, which can get pretty infuriating for anyone.

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  11. That's pretty awesome thing to do :)

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  12. Ridiculous mate. followed!
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  13. Some body text random words so forth blue

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  14. thats crazy but you did good sir

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  15. That was the nicest middle finger I have ever seen

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  16. Nothing illegal about doing what you done, that is the best part. And that is what makes it funny.

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  17. fucking epic dude, fucking epic

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