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Great. A new phobia.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I think we get crazier as we get older. I’d like to think the opposite is true, but alas, the evidence isn’t pointing that direction.<\/p>\n

My new phobia kicks in whenever I get pulled over by a cop.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if it’s our current, Bill-of-Rights-Lite administration or just age, but now when the cop stops me I am convinced it’s the Rogue Cop.\u00a0 The Maniac Cop.\u00a0 The Cop With Bad Information.\u00a0 I imagine he’s going to arrest me, hurt me, and worst of all — handcuff me with my hands behind my back.<\/p>\n

Why is that worst of all?\u00a0 I’ll tell you.\u00a0 I have severe, SEVERE personal-space claustrophobia.\u00a0 To be restrained like that is simply intolerable for me.\u00a0 I go crazy.\u00a0 I foam at the mouth.\u00a0 I worry that in that state I will not be able to effectively explain to Bubba the Unhinged Cop that I have a condition called claustrophobia and would he please consider maybe even using the handcuffs with my hands in front<\/em> of my body?\u00a0 Even that would be better.\u00a0 I doubt Bubba will listen.\u00a0 And I will just sit there quietly and have a heart attack.\u00a0 Like that young man a cop arrested last year who had a bag put over his head and died while trying to explain to an unlistening troglodyte cop that he had asthma.<\/p>\n

Does this all sound ridiculous?\u00a0 Well, I told you it was a phobia.\u00a0 Phobias aren’t rational by nature.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I assume this is what black men feel every time a cop stops them.<\/p>\n

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