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  1. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    I may have told this here before, but after I got out of the Marines, I spent four years without getting a haircut and grew myself a beard as well.

    While working at 9-1-1.

    So one night at about three in the morning on my day off (I worked midnights), I dropped by one of our departments to say hi to the boys. Long hair, beard, biker leather, Australian cowboy hat (a Jacaru, if you must know), raggedy jeans, boots... There was a squad car parked out front of the station with an officer I didn't recognize sitting in it looking lost.

    "Scuse me, is Jeff working tonight?" I kept my hands in plain view, but not ostentatiously so.

    "Sorry, what?"

    "Is Jeff on? Sgt Johnson? Just wanted to say hi."

    "Umm..."

    "Never mind, I'll go talk to Denise," who worked the front desk on mids.

    Denise called Jeff back to the station on the talkaround channel, and I said hello to Bob, one of the training officers, as he was on his way back out to his car and trainee.

    An little while later, as I was chatting with Jeff at the station, Bob called up on the talkaround. "Iain still there? Give him the mic, my trainee doesn't believe me. Give us a call, would you Iain?"

    "Umm, okay," I took the mic from Jeff. "Adam twelve, copy assignment. Adam twelve, I've got a 10-50 at the corner of main and first, no injuries reported."

    Trainee thought I was some sort of super deep-cover guy infiltrating a biker gang or something. I looked like a stroke, was dressed like one, but moved and talked like a cop. Once he heard my voice on the radio he realized who he'd been talking to though...

    ETA: All names, locations, and callsigns have been changed to protect the guilty. The story may have grown in complexity over the years, but the kernel of it is true. This is a creative writing site, after all :)
     
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    You mentioned moving like a cop and I've noticed something like that. It's weird here, though, because normal cops here all adopt this same stance when talking: facing the other person straight on, feet shoulder-width apart, hands tucked in the arm holes of their armour.

    The guys I work with, especially the ones with a similar career history to mine, tend to stand differently, even chatting with folk off duty: not full-on bladed, but with one foot noticeably forward and arms folded but with the hands free or else hands resting on their belt or the pouches on the tacvest, if in uniform.

    I guess we're just jumpy.
     
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    I don't know if you're armed or not, but one big tell for American cops is that they stand with their strong side back. So a right-handed cop will turn his body slightly so that his left side is presented to the person he's talking to, with the right side away from them. It's to use the body to prevent someone from trying to snatch their pistol from their holster, and they keep the posture even when in civvies (with the gun on the ankle or back of the belt.)
     
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    Yeah, I'm armed. Always with a pistol and tazer, usually an SMG, too, depending on what I'm up to.
     
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    At the party last night, decided to have a seat on one of the sofas. Nice place, but the dim lighting and loud music was disorienting.

    Girl on sofa with her mask off sees me: "A cane? You're either a pimp, an asshole, both or injured."

    Me: "I'm actually all of the above, The Pimpishassholewithaninjury. Nice to meet you."

    Girl: "Fucking clown."

    Last night was fun indeed.
     
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    I am not sure what else to say, other than sounds a tad awkward and little painful.
    Sorry it wasn't as fun as you thought it would be. :)
     
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    I actually had fun though, lol. Potty mouth made for good conversation. Least for me. :p
     
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    Five seconds after greeting Granny,

    "You so skinny! Need to eat more, get fat. The bigger your belly the happier you are."

    "Okay grandma, It's nice to see you too. Let's go eat."
     
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    I don't think there's a more spine-tingling moment in sports than the final leg of the Kentucky Derby, when the field comes off the last turn, jockeys standing in the stirrups, whips in hand, and the announcer shouting the horses' names as they thunder down the final stretch to the finish line. Once a year, I understand why people race horses.
     
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    Or... The Finnish way.

     
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