She Stopped Laughing

“So, like, during my summer in Europe I got pulled over for speeding in some dumb little country down by the Adriatic. I didn’t speak a word of the language but I thought it would just be an annoyance, like, you know, when you have to go to the DMV. So they had me in this room for a long time, and then a dude wearing a frilly white blouse walked into the room, and I started laughing, he looked so funny. But then he gestured at a guard, who stripped me and bent me over a leather-covered bench thing, and tied me down there. Suddenly it wasn’t so funny…”