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Saturday we had this brown out here. Too much power was being used because the temperature was a hundred and hell. So when the power went out I took my youngest daughter to the supermart to get cold drinks. We had seen the cop I like parked on the little neutral ground triangle by the stop light that wasn't working, and he was watching to make sure nobody ran it. So, while I was there I got him a big Mtn Dew.

On the way back home, I pulled over up on the median too and handed it to him, we talked about the heat and why the power was out then I went to leave.

Here is where it gets bad ok?

I made a joke "I'm going to make an illegal turn and go home" because I was on the median and had to cut across two lanes of nonexistent traffic to turn toward the house. He laughed and said "Go for it, be careful" and I had been talking to my best friend on the phone a lot that day ok? And when we hang up we don't say bye we say I love you. So I blurted out "K, see ya, I love you" and drove off.

I have no romantic or familial feelings for this guy. It was just habit. I say that to my friend all the time.

I feel like such an idiot.

BTW, lets be consistant here, when you are done reading this, imagine me waving and with my big ole grin hollering "I love you!"

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I wouldn't think too much of it. In all likelihood, he shrugged it off and kept right on doing his job. However, I know what it's like to rerun social mistakes you have made over and over again in your head. I am 38, but until the last 3 or 4 years I was still replaying ones I had made when I was a young as 5! The funny truth is that no one else really cares. With that in mind, I find it a little easier to forget the stupid things I may have said in the past.

I re-run social mistakes or what I perceive to be social mistakes as well. What you did was something even normal people do from time to time. The (personal) embarrassment subsides after a while, you just have to give it some time. At least you remembered to say something, right?

Happens to everyone. I don't even think it's a mistake or anything.

Most likely the cop just thought you were a friendly person, and a great change from the people who are always going on about "f'**k da police"

Your sense of humour means everything....that's classic, OliveOilMom.

My 3 YO said, "I want to ride in a police car!" I said, "Only if you're in the front seat."

Thank ya'll very much! I try to see the humor in stuff, it not only makes little things like this more interesting but it makes the hard stuff easier to deal with. I don't always succeed, but I do try.

Thanks again!

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Haha, it's kind of funny and embarrassing at the same time. Hopefully you don't see that cop again. I wonder what he was thinking?

Where my father grew up (rural Newfoundland, Canada) that would be considered normal behavior from older women to everyone they met. I wouldn't think anything of it personally.