Stay In Your Lane

I got the car, love it. Moving on...

We just had an encounter with police again. Me, Ace, Maury and the other people who are relatively obsolete to this story lol. We were playing basketball at the park, had just finished and were leaving when a cop pulled up. He was shining his light at us, mind you from at least 200 feet away, and Maury yelled, "Turn that damn light off!". So as we continue leaving, I'm at the head of the group with another guy and the cop asks who is the smart mouth who said to turn the light off. We both said we didn't know, and Maury yells it AGAIN from over on the court. Guys voice, only 2 guys in the back it could have been. I don't think the cop heard it the second time though. Moving on...

He asks us how old we are, asks if we have ids because the park closes at 10 and he can tow our cars blah blah blah. Then he asks us who has the smart mouth. Ace and Maury are kind of standing directly in front of the cop, while I'm off to the side. The cop singles out Ace like "Was it you with the smartass mouth?" Ace says, "No, can I ask why you're singling me out of everybody here?" and the cop says "Because you're the one who has the arrogant look on your face." Moving on...

So, none of us ended up getting tickets and as we're all preparing to pull away, me Ace and Maury are in the car and I'm telling Maury jokingly like "Haha, damn how many times are you going to be smart to a cop and still expect to get away with it?" and the cop walks up to the window and once again singles out Ace. "Are you over here talking shit again?" Ace replies, in a raised voice "NO! I JUST SAID BYE TO THEM AND THAT WE'LL SEE THEM LATER!" The cop is like "Don't fuck with me man, all that shit talking means nothing to me. I worked in L.A. for 15 years, most of them in South Central. You better calm that down." blah blah blah we all leave no harm no foul. Moving on...

So, in the car I address the issue with Ace that I will also address here. I told him that he WAS raising the voice at the cop, he DOES have an arrogant look on his face and that this will all end up backfiring on him one day. Keep in mind that I'm on his side, I don't really like 95% of cops, and this is my friend who I consider family. He still refuses to hear ANYTHING I'm saying. "Nah blood I didn't raise my voice to him. How do I have an arrogant look on my face? He was just fucking with me because when he saw us at the court I had my shirt off and then when I put it on I was wearing a white tee he was just stereotyping me."

*sigh*

I told him, he knows he has an arrogant look on his face, because he's an arrogant person. His problem is he doesn't know when to turn that shit off. Then, even if he was stereotyping you, understand that he's stereotyping ALL of us. Even if he did do a little harder on you in your mind, you still should have just avoided the situation as much as possible because you already KNOW he's going to fuck with you. When he came to the window instead of raising your voice and speaking in a disrespectful tone, you SHOULD have just said "No, sir." HOW FUCKING HARD IS THAT? You want a ticket because you refuse to turn off your arrogance when you're already in the wrong? Ok, then I'll go harder.

THAT'S why you don't have a job. Because you're too cool and just don't care and "It is what it is." That's why you're broke. That's why you're not a happy person and we ALL know why. People who just don't give a fuck end up broke, with kids, in jail. Point blank, period. If you feel it makes you look cool, then keep acting like that. Really, it just makes you look stupid as fuck. Not to mention of all the people there you were the one least capable of paying a ticket if you got one. Shit, you'd probably have to get a ride from your mom to your court date. Sorry, it's the truth though.

Moral of the story is, part of maturity is learning when to swallow your pride. If you can't do that, you'll fall behind, which you have done. Now you can either try to catch up or fall further and further behind until nobody even wants to fuck with you anymore.

And I'll be telling this to you tomorrow.