Shocking the Law

There he sat. A member of the Raleigh police in his uniform and clean cruiser. We caught eyes and his jaw dropped at my audacity.

His car had slowly crept up, silently, along the side of the building. I stood in the parking lot doing something sweetly stupid. I was alone for the moment. For a brief second I stopped what I was doing and smiled. The officer continued to stare.

At that moment I was on doughnut 8 of 12 in a Krispy Kreme Challenge eating practice. My friend Danger had just run inside for more water. It was at that moment that the officer had pulled up to the drive-in window to collect his order.

The look on his face was a mix of curiosity and disgust. If he could think of some technicality to have arrested me, I think I would have been sent to jail. As it was, I just popped doughnut nine into my mouth and he shook his head.

Danger returned and we each finished our dozen doughnuts. During that time the officer stared at us some more before finally driving away.

I can only hope his doughnuts were for training as well and he went home to sign up for the KKC.