I recently met one of Auburn’s finest.

While driving on 37th Street Northwest, I stopped at the light at West Valley Highway. A police car pulled up with lights and the siren going. I went across the road to a wide driveway and put my window down. He said on his P.A. system, “Don’t block the driveway.”

I put my window up and proceeded to the only safe place to pull over (about one-third of a mile). He said he had been telling me to pull over on his P.A. system. I told him I was hard of hearing, deaf in one ear and 75 percent hearing in the other.

He was not interested. He gave me a lecture on how I should obey instructions from a police officer. He stated he had no way of knowing my intent. An old man with his wife driving 35 miles per hour at 10:30 a.m.

The officer was upset, and I was going to pay.

I started to understand why we are having incidents like what is occurring on national news.

I got a ticket, going 43 in a 35-mph zone on 37th, no less. First one in more than 40 years.

– Marvin Vaughn