Beeb Blog

     Cinco de Mayo. Not "Mexican Independence Day" but a traditional celebration of the unexpected and underdog victory of the far outnumbered Mexican citizens in Puebla defeating the better armed and not-defeated-in-50-years French army. However, in the states it is now an Americanized excuse to party with little to no connection to its cultural roots. As if we didn't have enough...

     I was walking back at 3:30 in the morning from the only library on campus that is open 24 hours with some friends when we realized we left one person behind. We decided to wait on the street for him to catch up so as we were waiting there I took my backpack off, put it on the ground, and hunched over it in the rain finishing up the math problem I had been taken away from when we left.

     All of a sudden a pair of headlights pulled onto the shoulder of the road we were on, splitting up the group as slowed to a halt. I couldn't see anything but I heard "Move, move!" As I peered up over the glare of the headlights I saw my friend moving away from the opening door of a cop car as an officer was exiting. Here is the following dialog:

 Officer: "You alright?"

 Me:       "Yes..."

 O: "Ok good, we've had a busy night. Lot's of people partying. What are you doing?"

 M: "I'm doing a math problem..."

 O: "A MATH problem??"

 M: "Yes, I had to finish it."

 O: "You do know it's Cinco de Mayo right??"

 M: "Haha yes, I do."

 O: "Well alright then, I guess I'll see you later. Dude, you DO know it's Cinco de Mayo ya?"

 M: "Haha yes, I just had to finish the problem."

     As the car pulled away my friends and I were laughing hysterically. Out of all things to get "stopped" by an Officer for. However this experience really made me think, I vow to never do math problems and walk at the same time and I will cut back on my consumption of math. :p