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[QUOTE="Rick of Rick and Peg, post: 1130722, member: 51912"] I'm pretty sure we had IDPs on our first trip to Spain in '88 but I don't remember the police using them when Peg got a ticket. First the background and then I move on to the fun part. We were on a new toll road heading to Barcelona and ran out of cash because the government figured it could pay back the cost of the construction through tolls on the first 10,000 cars using it. So we got off it and on a small road to nowhere; there were absolutely no villages. It became dark. Peg passed a truck and shortly two motorcycle cops pulled us over and asked for fine money. This was all in Spanish which Peg had no exposure too then so she was on edge. I explained that we only had travelers checks and were on that road looking to cash them. They asked us to follow them eventually pulling into a hotel where I got $200 of pesetas (we got to keep a bit over half). Now here's the fun part. The police are in the dark parking lot writing out the ticket when I return to a nervous Peg. At one point the cop is writing something down and she is worried about it. "What's that?" "Peg, that's your birthday." At the end Peg insists that the cop show his ID. So I ask. He takes it out and shines his flashlight on his picture ID. Peg makes a little inhaling sound. The cop looks at me quizzically. "Crea que tu es muy guapo" I told him. Peg was so nervous and upset that she never noticed that this cop's looks would have had Eric Estrada from that CHiPs TV show hiding his face in shame. I've had over $100 in pleasure telling this story over the years. I probably should have used the subjective with the guapo statement but I still cant use it. [/QUOTE]
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