A flashy New York lawyer was driving through a small town in West Virginia when he blew straight through a stop sign and got pulled over by a local sheriff.<\/p>\n
Confident in his expensive suit and even bigger ego, the lawyer rolled down his window and smirked.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did you stop me?\u201d<\/p>\n
The sheriff calmly replied,<\/p>\n
\u201cYou didn’t come to a complete stop at that stop sign. License and registration.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The lawyer chuckled.<\/p>\n \u201cI slowed down. Nobody was coming.\u201d<\/p>\n The sheriff folded his arms.<\/p>\n \u201cYou still didn’t STOP.\u201d<\/p>\n Now completely in courtroom mode, the lawyer smiled arrogantly.<\/p>\n \u201cOfficer, legally speaking, what’s the difference between slowing down and stopping?\u201d<\/p>\n The sheriff stared at him for a moment.<\/p>\n Then he slowly reached into his patrol car.<\/p>\n The lawyer smirked.<\/p>\n \u201cYou’re going to explain the law to me?\u201d<\/p>\n The sheriff pulled out his ticket book.<\/p>\n \u201cNo, counselor.\u201d<\/p>\n He walked toward the driver’s door.<\/p>\n \u201cI’m going to demonstrate the difference.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The lawyer raised an eyebrow.<\/p>\n \u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n The sheriff suddenly grabbed the lawyer by his collar and gave him a quick smack on the back of the head.<\/p>\n The lawyer shouted,<\/p>\n \u201cHEY! What the hell was THAT for?!\u201d<\/p>\n The sheriff calmly replied,<\/p>\n \u201cDid that hurt?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cOf course it did!\u201d<\/p>\n The sheriff nodded.<\/p>\n \u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n Then he smiled.<\/p>\n \u201cNow, would you like me to SLOW DOWN\u2026 or STOP?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The lawyer stared at him.<\/p>\n The sheriff handed him the ticket.<\/p>\n \u201cHave a nice day, counselor.\u201d<\/p>\n The lawyer drove away without saying another word.<\/p>\n And from that day forward, whenever he saw a stop sign\u2026<\/p>\n he stopped completely.<\/strong> \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A flashy New York lawyer was driving through a small town in West Virginia when he blew straight through a stop sign and got pulled over by a local sheriff. … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}