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hotrodscott wrote:All of those make sense for the different scenarios. The one that puzzles me is I got pulled over in Arkansas in 95 one time for a "bad sticker" (in 95, Texas moved the reg. sticker to the windshield instead of the rear plate, so my TX plate sticker still said 94.) The officer (still seated in the driver's seat) announced on his PA that he wanted me to get out of my truck. I walked back to the shoulder, and he snapped his fingers and pointed at his passenger seat (like you might do to a little kid in trouble.) I walked around and climbed in, and he asked if I had been drinking (it was 8:00 AM and I was on my way to my grandparent's house in W.Va. with my dad.) I said, "heh, nope, just orange juice from the IHOP at the last exit" and he called me a smart alec and asked where I was going, why my sticker was out, etc. I explained the sticker moving to the windshield thing and he again called me a smart alec, stating that he knew the stickers in TX had changed, but his computer said my reg. was out. (None of this was in a "smart" tone, I was truly trying to be helpful/friendly) He said he thought I was drinking because I "swerved" to get to the shoulder once he lit me up. Anyway, once my license check came back OK, he let me go, but to this day, it strikes be as a really bad idea to have me in his passenger seat. If I were a bad guy, I was on his strong side, and once I rotated, my strong hand would have been free, etc.