tolchocked by millicents

hi hi hi there droogies

well, no, that above is not true. it is simply not the case, look you see, that your friend and humble narrator, being moi, was assaulted by the constabulary. my choice of title was purely for needless dramatic purposes. appy polly lodgies. 

but still, you know, i did (indeed) have an encounter of sorts with a law enforcement official. recently, as in the past, not the future. i got stopped as part of what looked like a massive operation to catch people who may have been at the controls of a vehicle whilst intoxicated. or, in somewhat different words, they were doing a sting thing to try and catch drink drivers. 

pictured above, in the greater good and glory of Commodore 64 mode (of course), is the bit of the breathalyser test what i had to blow into. the member of the constabulary who gone done tested me said i could keep it as a souvenir. cheers for that, since my taxes had likely paid for it. quite a curious test thing, and it took me a few goes to register a reading. so as to avoid any further needless drama, indeed it was so that my reading was zero, or whatever it is that reflects no alcohol present in my system. had there been, well, i would have had serious words with who(m)ever manufactured my coffee. 

the vagaries of language come to the fore again. our friends in America reading this shall no doubt be confused (and bewildered) by the term "breathalyser". for them the spelling, for some reason, is breathalyzer. beyond getting rid of perfectly good "u" letters in words they do seem to have a tendency to replace "s" with "z" in seldom used (yet key) words. 

another look at the bit off of (or out of) the breathalyser what i was allowed to retain, then, but in this instance in VHS mode. no, i have no idea at all what i am supposed to do with it, beyond take a picture of it and place it here. 

did i mind, or object, to the constabulary stopping me and testing me so? not really. it is a minor inconvenience, true, but still, for the greater good, etc, if it helps get clearly dangerous drivers off the road, so much the better. 

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!