HAHAHA! This one is too funny to not share. So I hop on my bike today to run to the bank to close out an account. I pull up to a light on the left side of a police car that's already parked at the light. There are a couple of cars in front of each of us. I notice the police dude has his window rolled down as I pull up. I'm sitting there maybe five seconds when I hear "Hey!" I look over to the policeman and our eyes meet. He points (with his pipe that he's smoking) to my right side-cover and yells "What is that?" I point to it and yell (over the sound of traffic and my exhaust) "That's a hand grenade!" He yells back "Is it real?" I lie back "No! It's just a wiring cover." He seems to consider this a couple of seconds, then nods knowingly as the light is turning green. We both pull away and I get in front of him within seconds. A couple of seconds later, his blue light comes on. Eh? I pull over and he gets out of his car. As he approaches he says "I've just got to see this and know for sure." I tell him it doesn't have a back-side to it (since I'd cut it off to lighten it up some). He feels around the back side of it and says "You know, that thing really makes you look like a badass." I say "Oh, well it's just supposed to make the
*bike* look like a badass." He tells me that some law enforcement officers might consider me to be breaking a law called "Armed to the terror of the public." Then he goes on to tell me that he recommends I get a different cover, but that he understands, because he's a biker too. "Oh, really?" I politely ask. He says "Yeah, I ride a Harley!" (I swear to God he said that.) I said "Oh, I'm sorry." OK, so I didn't really say that. i said something like "Ah, cool." So he let me go on my way with just a polite recommendation that I strongly consider going with a different side cover. He mentioned something about how terrified a little old lady would be if she saw my bike and I tried not to smile as I remembered that "...bike looks like it eats babies!" comment. Hmmm.. I wonder if he'd have let me go if I told him I was really pissed off at my bank right now and that I was on the way there at that very moment to withdraw all of my money and close my account. But... that's a story for another day. *nostalgic sigh*