Many years ago, I was practicing driving with my dad on a parking lot in an industrial area. It was the weekend, so it was nice and empty, and we were driving around practicing starting and stopping. Then another car turns into the lot, the driver steps out with his dog and goes into a small wooded area next to the lot. He leaves his car door wide open. Okay, that's pretty weird, but we continue driving round and round. Some ten minutes later a police car doing the rounds in the area goes by, spots the sloppily parked car with wide open door and goes to investigate. The policemen poke around in it for a while, and all the while I drive round and round on the parking lot, with a "student driver" sign clearly posted on the car. Then they signal for me to pull over, which I do. I turn the window down, we say hi, and the policeman asks my dad: "Is that your car?"
I just don't see how that could be possible. Did he think I - an obvious newbie student driver - had driven our car all the way there alone or what? He could've asked if we knew anything about that other car or something... Anyways, we told him what we had seen, and I expect the dog guy got a severe scolding when he came back. We didn't stay long enough to find out. However, I had the distinction of being the first in my highschool year to be pulled over!
