You Must Respect My Authoritie!

OK, so Michael and I drove up to Lake Arrowhead last night in our Chevy Tahoe. Everything was going fine until we got to the chain inspection checkpoint. Now it must first be said that we saw the signs stating "possession of chains required," but did not heed the warnings. When we got to the checkpoint, the authorities were stopping everyone and Michael tried to talk his way out of needing chains to no avail. In fact, the jerky cop kept asking Michael specific questions to catch him in his lie, but Michael stayed with his story all the way to the point of the cop telling us to turn around. So we drive miles back down and go to the Walmart at the bottom of the hill. They had a handwritten sign stating they were out of chains. We're hungry and pissed off and hung over, but we forged further down the freeway to the Sports Chalet. Saviors!!! They had plenty of chains and our size (our local Sports Chalet and Pep Boys did not). So we trek back up the mountain. It is now dark and a little snowy. We get back up to the checkpoint. The same asshole cop is standing there. But now that it's dark and driving conditions have dramatically worsened, he is waving on every passenger car and SUV alike, with or without tires.

Moral of the story, never challenge an asshole cop's AUTHORITIE!!!!