Hi,
this is a tale worth telling.
Thursday, Thanksgiving evening, we were driving home from dinner with Marshalls' family, down Route 206 in New Jersey. For the most part it's a two lane "highway" but there are traffic lights every 1/8th of a mile. As we pull away from a red light a car in the right turn lane on our right side, doesn't make a right turn but instead, cuts Marshall off and pulls in front of his car really tight so that we are almost kissing bumpers. The jerk then hits his brakes, making Marshall have to slam on his brakes so that we don't hit him. The driver in front of us is now proclaimed a total moron by both of us. Marshall then flashes his high beams at the guy to let him know how pissed he his so the driver then slams on his brakes again. Good thing Marshall is far enough behind him that it doesn't matter and we don't collide.... but now Marshall is very, very angry with this dude.
We watch him creep up on the tail of the car in front and weave enough so that we both decide he's not only a bad driver but probably not the top of the I.Q. scale either. That prompts Marshall into action. He pulls out his phone and calls 911. I'm thinking "so what, the police aren't going to pay any attention to his complaint". Boy was I wrong.
The 911 dispatcher quickly got a patrol car that was in the area and as we described where we were and where this driver was headed they were able to apprehend him. The dispatcher had us pull into a police station 1/4 mile down the road to get a signed statement from Marshall. By the time we pulled into the police station they already had stopped the driver and had administered a breathalyzer test... which he flunked! With Marshalls' statement and his failed DUI test he is now in big do-do.
I was so impressed that my husband was able to get a drunk driver off the road and arrested. His mom sure named him correctly, "Marshall" did his duty that night. It's why I love this man of mine.
xox
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