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When I got my original CHL I hadn't checked the status when I was on my way home from a telecom upgrade that we did after 10pm. It was about 2am as I approached my exit on 75 in Plano, and I noticed a bunch of cars sitting in the grass with their lights off, and flashing blue and red farther down the road, which made my old rescue squad instincts start to kick in, I thought there might have been a big wreck, so I moved to a higher state of awareness.

As I pulled off onto the exit ramp, I saw one of the cars in the grass start up and fall in behind me, so it became obvious that it was a drunk sweep and I kind of relaxed, I had nothing to worry about.

I was a little dismayed when the car behind me lit me up, but I pulled over safely and did all the right things.

This young officer walked up to my driver's side and asked for the usual, but stuck his head almost all the way in the car trying to smell my breath. He went back to his car and then came back and asked if I was "packing."

Now I was scheduled to go out of town the next morning and that was on my mind, so my first thought was to wonder how he knew that I hadn't packed my clothes yet, but he finally made it clear that he wanted to know if I had a gun with me.

I told him no, that I did not have a CHL, and he told me that according to their records I did.

The plastic arrived in the mail the next day.

I got a warning for a license plate light out.