London Strolling

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15. When we took our family to Florida on vacation, we were walking from the hotel,

to a restaurant which we could see from the hotel entrance. A police car pulled up and two cops jumped out and demanded to know where we were going (that's me, my wife and 8-year-old son).

I explained that we were staying at the hotel and we were going to 'that' restaurant for dinner.

"Do you have a car? Why are you not driving?", he wanted to know.

I said something like, "There's no way I'm going to drive four hundred yards to a place I can see from here! We're from London, we walk everywhere!"

He replied (I kid you not), "Well, you shouldn't walk around here when you can drive."

I asked if we'd broken some law or might be in any danger (we were in the hotel car park). We hadn't and we weren't; he obviously thought there was something suspicious about two adults and a boy walking. Which seemed very sad, to me.