WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION ?

"What is fucking wrong with you? Are you fucking insane? Don't you think we should discuss this before you go and do it? Motorcycles, Bulls and now Police Officer, you have a death wish don''t you?"

You get the idea, my wife, Tamara was not happy. We have some friends that are police officers and they have told her about the high divorce rate, stress and the overall dangers of the job. However, when I told her this is what I wanted to do she understood and stood by me. She still was not pleased but she stayed. She helped me study and stay focused on my goal.

Toward the end of the academy, we were doing our driving lessons and the instructor, Bart was a real...Pain. The course was a mile and a half road course type track. I'm about the 4th person to take the track, a white Caprice with a LT1. I get in the car and Bart says, "You have to make 2 laps, at anytime I feel that you are going too fast into a corner I will slap the dash and tell you to brake. If at anytime you leave the track you will fail the course."

I took off, taking the first lap fast but not to fast. The second lap was a different story, no holds barred, balls to the walls. The back side of the track was a straight away and I got the Caprice up to 127 mph. At the end of the straight was a 90 degree right turn. As we start to get to the turn Bart slaps the dash and says brake, however I don't slow down at all. As we continue to approach the corner Bart is now pounding on the dash and screaming BRAKE! BRAKE! BRAKE! At the last second I pound on the brake and slide through the corner like a professional driver. We get back to the start / finish and Bart hits the stop watch and says "Shit...you had me worried,... by the way, you beat the all time track record by 1/10 of a second.

Now I'm thinking this is one of the best days of my life, how could it get any better? I get home to our tiny rented duplex and and tell Tamara about the great day I had. She said she knew I would do fine and told me she had a present for me and brings me a gift bag. I read the card and she had wrote a note inside telling me how proud she was of me and how much she loved me. Then a reached inside the bag and pulled out a book. A book on Fatherhood? I just kind of looked at it and told Tamara thank you. It just took a few seconds before I looked up at Tamara and the big smile on her face to realize she was pregnant.

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