The female police sergeant drove over the river bridge so fast I could smell the transmission burning. "Could you tell me again what happened sir!" she said looking through the rear-view mirror, her eyes obscured by her sun glasses. The other officer, her black hair up in a bun revealing her beautiful neck, wrote in her patrol book.
I told her I could but she would not believe me, and if I made her believe me then I'd be in still more trouble.
"Sir! We had to use a copter to get you off a roof from a throng of several hundred women, you'd best explain now!" said the officer in the other seat.
"Fine but I am going to have to leave one part out. You can lock me up later but the one thing that would really convince you I must leave out. You will see."
"It all started in my basement. I was cleaning up and found an old magazine had got its pages interlaced with a paperback. When I pulled them apart, it must have been dampness, but the pages stuck together slightly and ripped. I tossed the magazine in the trash. I looked at the paperback to see if I could scrape the pages apart and save it. But then I saw it, a line from the magazine article had been pasted halfway across a line from the magazine, in an odd way the words made sense; in a nonsense, poetic sort of way."
"Are you sure you didn't spike the water coolers. We will have them tested," said the sergeant.
"No, may I go on?" she nodded with that nod I had seen before in a thousand police shows.
"Anyway the phrase kept running through my head. At dinner I joked about it telling my wife. She had been working the food processor and could not hear it so I repeated it again and she turned to me. And right in the kitchen she got on her knees frantically opening my pants." I was going to stop but the officer told me to go on, all the time scribbling in her pad as I thought about whether my wife's brother could defend me in court, he was a real estate lawyer, but a darn good one.
"My wife stopped long enough to rip open her blouse and as the buttons rolled and plinked on the floor she undid her bra. Then she..."