Shoe

Jul 1, 2026

"it’s nighttime and i’m trying to leave some house that’s very dangerous for some reason - i think there was poison. my cat is with me. my car is full of everything i own — my whole life and we need to get to a hotel. I’m just pulling out and because the car is so full i can’t see well behind me. I hear the honk of a car and think i must have annoyed someone. suddenly i see col car lights and the sound of a cop car not the honk i had thought i heard. I had been planning to make a right but because the cop is behind me I go straight and pull over. A police officer approached my car and start trying to tell him that i was trying to leave a house and get to a hotel and i was confused. He tells me I had made a wide right turn, which is weird because i was planning on it but the cop behind me had prevented that. He asks if I will step out of the car. I get out and realize i’m only wearing a sweatshirt with no pants. the sweatshirt has some okay on words on it with a childlike drawing of a ghost and it says “don’t need no body”. the officer is putting light in my eyes and i know he’s got going to put me through a field sobriety test and im terrified. i look at my shoes and they are the least supportive shoes possible - i look at the officers shoes and note how sturdy his boots are. we are standing on a sidewalk with very uneven ground that is slanted with pieces sticking up and the officer starts barking offer at me about how to walk heel to toe. he then tells me to stand on one foot and start counting from 1000 down. i start to count 1000 999 998 997.. i can see in the periphery of my vision. another cop with a flashlight looking into ny car and i think that he’s looking in at my whole life. Through the whole thing im most worried that my ex boyfriend is going to see me on the street, im more scared of that then of going to jail or being in trouble. The officer looks at me when im finished and he says in a very flat unreadable way “that’s what i thought”. i have no idea what that means and if its good or bad…. and he tells me “you’re sober… but you have very bad balance. He then asks me if he can search my car and i start trying to explain to him that it’s not that i’m hiding anything it’s just that my whole life is in my car and he keeps saying “yes or no. yes or no and i keep saying i don’t know. i have no idea if i say no to him if he’s going to arrest me. finally i say no. and he gives me a ticket for the wide right turn i never made. "