Mrs. Plansky Gets Pulled Over - Peter Abrahams

“Have you had anything to drink?”
“Today, you mean?”
“You getting smart with me?”
“No, no, officer. Certainly not! Me? Smart? Ha! Ask anybody. And the answer to your question is one cup of coffee, black, and a glass of orange juice, the kind with pulp.”
“Alcohol,” he said. “Anything alcoholic.”
“It’s the middle of the afternoon.”
His face flushed. A horrible insight flashed through her mind. He was about to say step out of the car, and the next minute she’d be by the side of the road, hands on the car roof—or even handcuffed!—and on the six o’clock news, even the lead on a slow news day.

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