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The officer asked the woman to do the alcohol test and then even demanded she do the substance test as well
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The officer kept on interrogating the author, so she decided to use malicious compliance here
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She started telling a long story about her journey, describing trees, birds and whatnot – and finally the cop just let her go
The Original Poster (OP) says that a few years ago, when she was younger, she would visit natural parks. And so, during one of her trips, when the woman was driving home, a police officer stopped her on the road and asked her to undergo an alcohol test. Of course, the author politely agreed, but something in her behavior apparently seemed strange to the policeman – and he asked her for a further substance test and started interrogating her.
The OP kept on answering all questions just as politely and patiently, but the officer did not stop the interrogation, asking where she was coming from, what she was doing in the park and whatnot. At some point, the woman’s patience snapped, and she… no, not yelled at the cop, but on the contrary, just imagined that she was chatting with one of her colleagues, and began telling her story in the most cordial and enthusiastic tone.
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Of course, this story is in no way a call to sabotage the work of various officials, but if the situation really takes on the features of a stupid confrontation, such reductio ad absurdum may well work. After all, as the good soldier Švejk once said: “If you wish, Your Grace, that I confess, then I will confess. It will not harm me. But if you say: ‘Švejk, don’t confess to anything,’ I will twist until I’m torn apart.”
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