The Police Car

One day, I was buying something from the supermarket next to our house.
There was a police station next to us on the same street, and police cars were always coming and going.

I was walking down the street, when a police car sped by me,
As if it were on a highway,
And our street is narrow, I mean, it doesn’t make any sense.
There were people walking and children playing.
He could have hit me, so I was startled.
“Are you stupid?” I yelled after the car.
At that moment, he slowed down and stopped,
“Stupid?” he asked me.
“Yeah,” I said.

I saw that he was just a child, still a new officer.
He kept shouting, and I was shouting, and people started to gather around us.
“That’s enough, sir,” they said, “She's just a girl.”
“No, I’m going to take her to the station,” he said.

I was furious at the phrase “just a girl.”
“Let’s go to the station,” I told him.
“Let’s go,” he said.
So many people urged me not to go, and I told them,
“It’s none of your business.”
They told me: “You’re a girl.”

My uncle came and told him: “That’s enough, sir.”
I was furious.
I mean he’s at fault, and they still ask him to stop?
Why?
I told him: “Let’s go, because you’re the one who needs to be reported,
Because you’re stupid.”
So we went to the station.

At the station he asked me, “Where’s your ID?”
“At home, and I’m not going to get it.”
We kept shouting at each other until the superintendent came and asked, “What’s the matter?”
“I’m going to file a report against this idiot,” he said.
He became furious and told me, “You’re not getting out of this place today.”

My uncle came in and told the superintendent: “We have the utmost respect for you, sir.”
And the issue was settled.
What makes me so angry is that he said, “Because you’re so and so’s daughter, we’re letting you go.”
And what hurts me is that to this day, he still drives down the street, and I still get furious when I see him.

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