Are you a parole officer?

[CenterTree]

Not a super exciting encounter, but it was so "sadly" comical to me.

Went to Dunkin Donuts this morning for my regular Sunday morning joe.

I was the only customer in line, but as I was paying a girl came in behind me to order.
Got my coffee, went to the table (near the door) to add sugar.

As I was stirring my cup, she came over to get her Splenda. Her body language was what was the MOST comical to me.
The table has plenty of room for 2 customers to work. She actually stood about 2 feet off the the left of the table. (therefore 4 feet away from me).

My peripheral vision saw her scanning me up and down repeatedly as she stirred her coffee also.

I finished, (and could tell she was done too) and started to head to the door and she froze.

So I thought I would make it interesting.... I opened the door for her and WAITED for her to exit. Time stood still.

She realized she HAD to oblige my offer and she walked VERY cautiously toward the open door.

Now, there is a double door there and so I stepped to the next door and did the SAME thing. She was shaking a little.

She came outside and swerved waaaaaaay around me. I thought it was over, BUT...BUT, she felt the need to engage me.

Her: Are you a parole officer?
Me: No.
Her: Oh!
Me:
Her: So, you just carry a firearm?
Me: Yep!
Her: Oh!
Me: Have a good day.

I let go of the door and heading for my car.
She made a FAST bee-line to here get-away-vehicle and burned rubber out of there. (embellishment)

Not a major encounter, but if you could have seen her reaction you would laugh.
Ya would have thought I was covered in blood or something.


PS: no secret service agents were harmed during this encounter.

[CHEMICAL]

Hahahaha....obviously someone is violating her parole!

[libra8]

LOL You may be right. Why would she ask that instead of are you a cop?

[Shisno]

Well to her credit, you were in a donut shop. Its a lot less far fetched that you would be some sort of LEO there than if she would have asked you that somewhere else



I couldn't resist.

[CenterTree]

LOL You may be right. Why would she ask that instead of are you a cop?

Yeah, ya know, that was the strange part about it also. I wondered too why she didn't ask if I was a cop?

It WAS odd for someone to choose the words "parole officer".

For sure she was exhibiting an irrational hoplophobic response.

[Greywolf]

For sure she was exhibiting an irrational hoplophobic response.

Or a rational parolee response ...

[Metz]

Someone, not me, already came up with good one on that:

Q: are you bounty hunter (PO or whatever)?
A: do you have any warrants on you?

[B2Luv2Hunt]

My wife and I were asked if we were Probation Officers. But the that was by a girl who's parents were Probation in New York. She said "my parents carry like that." We were old enough to be her parents.

[ungawa]

Do parole officers eat donuts?

On a side note, I've thrown donuts out on my front lawn a few times and the cops just drive by without stopping. Maybe they detect the human scent on them

(sorry, couldn't resist)

[snakeman21]

Do parole officers eat donuts?

On a side note, I've thrown donuts out on my front lawn a few times and the cops just drive by without stopping. Maybe they detect the human scent on them

(sorry, couldn't resist)

I love it when I see cop stereotypes in public. One day, I was at a red light, and a cop pulled up next to me in the next lane. I looked over at him and it was all I could do to contain my laughter.

First of all, this cop was fat. And I don't mean a little beer belly, I mean the kind of fat where he is looking down the not-so-steep slope of his "chest-belly" at all times and has not seen his feet or his penis since 1985.

Second (and this was the best part), he was eating a huge jelly doughnut with powdered sugar on it.

As I watched, he dropped glob of jelly and some powdered sugar on his uniform. With the care of a surgeon, He gingerly scooped up the glob of jelly with his finger and ate it before leaning toward the window and flicking the powdered sugar out of the car. The whole thing was priceless.



I love it when I drive by a Dunkin Donuts and I see like 6 police cars parked there. It makes my day.