SEP 12, 1995

STATE TROOPER

I didn't really know what to expect when the state trooper motioned to me that I should stop. I thought I was following all of the state rules as I was heading south along US 231. When the officer rolled down his window, he didn't really seem mad at anything.

His reason for making me stop was just to see how I was doing. He told me that he had seen an article about me in this morning's Montgomery, AL newspaper. This was a bit of a puzzlement because I didn't stop to get interviewed. From what I could figuere out the report must have been called in by the guy who had stopped me in North Montgomery as I was heading into the driveway of a new pastor friend of mine.

I asked the officer how he had known that I was the cyclist he wanted to talk to since of course there had been no photo taken. He said that my orange traffic safety vest with the white crosses on it was the giveaway since it was metioned in the article. After about a five minute chat, the officer reached over to the back seat to get a bottle of spring water that he had and gave it to me along with ten dollars.