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I read this story and hand to God, I do make this up.

Three nights ago I am driving home. The are working on our road at night. Traffic one way, then the other....not a problem, I get this.

So I’m stopped and for twenty minutes...NOTHING! No traffic coming at me, nothing. It was very late, I wanted to get home. I could understand them closing a lane, leeting one side go, then the other. But they stopped me yet nothing was coming the other way. twenty minutes!

So I shout at the guy with the stop sign...hey, I was probably loud, and a bit angry, but I asked him when he was going to let us go. did not cuss, did not call him names, shut up after he answered with the silly response that he would let us go after last car came from other lane as NO , cars were coming from other lane, which was my complaint.

State cop there on side of road, saunters up to me. Got an attitude like a man put on a uniform and became all powerful, all knowing. He indicates for me to roll down my passenger window, which I do. He asks me what am I doing. I tell him I am asking the traffic guy a question, is this against some kind of rule?

Mr. Big Man In a Uniform, all powerful with a swagger can be seen a block away, launches into a lecture about how I would be the first to complain if the road were left potholed, how I shouldn’t yell at the poor man directing traffic. Big cop man then tells me to pull over to the side and now I’m really mad.

But I do, I maneuver in and out of the traffic cones. He wants my license, registration, proof of insurance. By now I’m feeling really mistreated. i call husband, say very loudly how I got a big cop here mistreating me, that I’d committed no crime. Husband on cell phone telling me to calm down, that this guy could shoot me like cops like to do to dogs that bark at them...pet dogs.

So I sit quiet but the cop won’t let me go. He’s got my license registration...sitting in his cop car, doing I don’t know what....punishing me.

This goes on for about ten to fifteen minutes. by now, the hell with it, I’m going to jail if need be because this guy is falsely imprisoning me in my own car, he’d not given me a ticket, I’d broken no law. I dunno, maybe a small lecture was warranted but even that was a stretch.

I start crying and begging the guy....”please let me go home. I’m sixty years old with a heart problem and my husband is sick and needs me.” Which was all true, in fact.

Cop, big man in town....yells “you just sit still and wait until I tell you you can go”. Whole time he’s got my license and stuff, husband on cell phone line begging me to sit quiet, this asshole imprisoning me in my own car with no benefit to me of judge or jury. Damn, he had on a cop uniform...that was authority enough, right?

I’m only a block from home, bear in mind. so I gather my purse, take key out of ignition, get out of my car and start walking. Cop jumps out of car asking me where the hell i was going. “I’m going home. I only live across the road.”

He runs up to me...GRABS ME...and tells me he’ll have my car towed and have me arrested for disturbing the peace. Imagine, walking upon a public road....disturbing the peace. I suppose he could have towed my car but by then I was just so upset I wanted to get home so bad before I punched this guy and really got into trouble.

But he grabs me and forces me back into my car. Only something changed. He went back to the cop car, got my license and stuff, told the traffic guy to stop traffic. He gave me my stuff back and told me to go on but don’t hit any traffic cones. And he asked, gently, why i was so upset.

I think he got scared when I got out of the car and started walkiing but it’s just a guess. But his attitude changed cause what’s he gonna tell his boss? Go with me here, I can write a line or two. That this sixty year old lady, returning home from late choir practice such was the thug she was, actually shouted at a traffic director. Then I’m walking home late at night cause he was falsely imprisoning me then towiing my car, then parked, out of the way, on the shoulder?

I was once married to a Baltimore city cop. While we might not have gotten along, he would NEVER have done such a stunt. this Delaware state cop was a man who thought he had almighty power.

And yeah, I’d have sued everyone on that force but I fought back and I’m glad I did. god knows the joy he was having hearing me sob and beg to go home.

Just an awful experience.