A man is driving home to New York with his wife when he is suddenly overtaken by an cop in a white-and-blue car. The cop motions him to pull over and steps out of his car with a haughty stride.

"Good evening sir. Do you know why I pulled you over?"

The guy replies: "No idea my good friend!"

The cop asks: "Do you know how fast you were going sir?", and the guy answers: "Oh, I'm sure it was no more than seventy miles an hour!"

At this moment his wife chimes in: "No it wasn't, Tom! You were going at least a hundred!" The guy regards his wife with an icy stare.

"I see," the cop says smugly, noting in his notebook. "And I've noticed you have no taillights, sir?"

"Ahhh," Tom stammers, "It's broken - but it just broke today, I was going to have it fixed tomorrow!"

"Tom," his wife scolds, "That taillight's been broken for three weeks now, and you always said that those cops are too stupid to notice anyway." Tom looks at his wife angrily and growls: "Shut up, damnit!"

"Aha!" the cop smirks. "Three weeks sir? My my." He makes another note. "Oh, and those boards sticking out of your trunk. Did you realize they were sticking out too far? You do know you need to mark those things with a flag, do you sir?"

"Oh, eh, I... really?" Tom stutters, "No, I didn't know about that sir, really it, eh, it was simple forgetfulness!"

"Now, now, Tom!" his wife frowns. "That's not true! You said that you didn't give a rat's [nocando] about flags, and that the cops could stick their flags up their old tan tracks!" Jurgen grits his teeth and clenches the steering wheel. "Shut up, will you, you stupid old bat, or you'll have a black eye tomorrow!"

"Riiight," the cop grins, making another note. "Say," he asks Tom's wife, "is your husband always so mean to you?"

"Oh no, officer! Only when he's drunk!"