It's Me, Sara Louise

In my last French class, I learned all about la réciprocité (example; Nicolas Sarkozy déteste Ségolène Royal. Ségolène Royal déteste Nicolas Sarkozy. Nicolas et Ségolène se detestent). Interesting, no? Sure. But let’s take a look at what The Husband is listening to on his English language lesson CD:

(Please note: This is an advanced English CD which from listening to, is obviously geared towards people who will be traveling to America. Also, I swear on my shoes that I have not made any of this stuff up. I have copied the text verbatim from the CD. Besides, I honestly don’t think I could have imagined this little cultural lesson, even if I tried.)
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“If you see an officer behind you with his lights flashing, that usually means he wants you to pull over.”

Usually?

“Don’t try to run away because he’ll go after you and call in more officers to help him catch you.”

That doesn’t sound scary at all.

“Whatever traffic law you broke, running from a police officer will make it worse and could get you killed in the process.”

W T F ???

“Don’t just jump out of the car because the officer may think you have a gun.”

Um, OK.

“In the U.S., you should not try to give the officer some money so he won’t giver you a ticket. Bribing a police officer is very illegal and you could go to jail if you try.”

Good to know.
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I believe this portion of the lesson is entitled, “Running from the Po-Po.”