My coworker dressed up as a mean nurse for the Halloween costume contest at our office in downtown Miami.

After getting her little daughter ready for school she was late for work. She lives in Kendall, a bit far from downtown. So she thought it wouldn’t hurt to enter the highway before the end of the grid lines so she’d get to full speed quicker. What were the odds a police officer would stop her? Well, she did get pulled over.

The officer was a tough guy, she tells me, almost scary.

She takes her sunglasses off and looks at him. I can just imagine her unaffected expression of “what have I possibly done wrong?”

The officer starts the typical speech. “Do you know I could fine your for that?”

“Oh, he’ll take a big bite from my paycheck!”

Three or four “Do you knows” later the officer softens up. “But since you heal people I’ll let you go.”

She decided to forget all the teachings about truth and honesty and principles and concentrated on how luck she was.

“Oh, thank you so much!”

After she was released she realized the plastic stethoscope was exposed in the back seat.

Had the officer seen it she’d have said. “Oh, that’s my daughter’s.”

To what the officer would’ve replied. “Oh, does she heal people too?”

BTW, her costume was perfect! But, for obvious reasons, I can’t post a picture of it here.