Serious Public "U" Question...

[Debra2005]

About five years ago my boyfriend and I had car troubles but managed to get ourselves to a rest area stop. The public phone there wasn't working and our cell phone got no reception, but we figured no problem, we'll ask the next highway patrolman to pull in to please radio a tow truck for us. We weren't worried as we assumed, like the rest of us, Highway Patrol need to make "rest" stops as do all of us, probably more. Being in a car all day, probably drinking coffee to keep alert, one must need to stop with regularity. Yet we waited and waited and though we saw a couple of HWP pass by, none stopped. After several hours we asked a truckdriver to use his CB radio to get a tow truck to us. As we love to hike, we travel a lot, and this incident brought to our attention that neither one of us has ever seen a highway patrol stop at a rest stop.

My question is, where do highway patrol make their necessary "rest stops?" Do they have special areas just for them? My boyfriend says they probably just stop by the roadside, as we do at night. But since he got a scolding and verbal warning for taking a leak under a viaduct by a partrolman, I would think this is not allowed by those in command.

Just curious...!

[Cat_Doc]

ROFLMAO! You can find the Arizona DPS at the truck stop restaurants.

[Debra2005]

ROFLMAO! You can find the Arizona DPS at the truck stop restaurants.

His theory is that it takes too long to make a "formal" stop every time - therefore allowed to bend the law.
what is "ROFLMAO?"

[Seand442]

depends on the situation. If you have the time and ability, you might find them at a circle k, quick trip, starbucks, etc. If we are in the middle of BFE and have to go, we find a bush or tree and wait until nobody is around. When you gotta go...

[207]

what is "ROFLMAO?"

Rolling On Floor Laughing My A-- Off

[DepDog]

If I gotta GO, I will not use a rest area, I will try to make it back to the PD

[Debra2005]

Again, i gotta ask, why is that? True, some are not very pleasent, but their better than kidney failure! and for a man, you don't even have to touch anything.

[Cat_Doc]

... and for a man, you don't even have to touch anything.

Hey, no need to get personal here! :cool:

[Star]

Again, i gotta ask, why is that? True, some are not very pleasent, but their better than kidney failure! and for a man, you don't even have to touch anything.

I laughed so hard, I forgot the question, Deb. tee hee!!!! :D

[Debra2005]

sounds both logical and practical - for everyone.

[Oldbillplod]

And just what is your fascination with police officers and their toilet habits :confused:

[mcsap]

2nd tree on the left

[Debra2005]

Hey, no need to get personal here! :cool:

Ha! You know what I mean! Well we have to pad the toilet seat with layers of TP, hoping not to catch anything, all you have to do is stand there, holding, uh... yourself! And if you're like my boyfriend, you flush with the sole of your shoe too. No contact at all! Gotta be a little envious!

[Cat_Doc]

Ha! You know what I mean! Well we have to pad the toilet seat with layers of TP, hoping not to catch anything, all you have to do is stand there, holding, uh... yourself! And if you're like my boyfriend, you flush with the sole of your shoe too. No contact at all! Gotta be a little envious!

Oh, okay, I was about to defend myself with one of my favorite sayings, "I never said it was long, I said it was fat." :D

[Debra2005]

And just what is your fascination with police officers and their toilet habits :confused:

C'mon! Surely you're not threatened by my curiosity. Are you... ;)