Anyone who regularly motors through a retirement community like Laguna Woods knows to take a defensive-driving posture. Signal-free lane changes, inconsistent relationships with gas and brake pedals, and overall blind-as-a-fruit-bat driving are common the closer you get to old-age homes.
Tonight, drivers have something else to worry about . . .
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. . . a DUI checkpoint.
“I SAID, 'HAVE YOU HAD ANYTHING TO DRINK THIS EVENING, MA'AM!'” you can imagine the inquiring copper shouting through the glass to a granny holding an ear cone.
“Yes, it is cold enough for a mink wrap this evening, sonny,” she might answer back.
“LICENSE AND REGISTRATION . . .”
“No, Lutheran.”
The Orange County Sheriff's Department, which runs this circus from 6:30 tonight through 2:30 a.m. Saturday, isn't saying exactly where they will be setting up in Laguna Woods. But I'd be suspicious of anyone out on the streets after 9 p.m. That's when TV Land starts its Everybody Loves Raymond block
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.