Last night on my way to the IHOP I was pulled over by a Pontiac with three high black guys in it. They said they were selling pot and asked if I was a cop. “I sure am,” I said, at which point three of the four car doors opened. Were they going to run or beat me up? I wondered. I said I was only kidding—“Do I look like a cop to you?”—and the guy in the front passenger seat held up a small bag of pot he wanted $15 for. Something felt wrong, so I said no. It’s probably not a good idea to buy drugs in the middle of the street. If they’d taken my money and driven off, I really couldn’t have
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