Operating Left of Center

It has been said by various people who know me that i am a lucky bastard. i don't always agree, but currently i do. So yesterday i had a court date for a ticket i got for running a red light (i contest that it was still yellow, i couldn't safely stop, yadda yadda yadda), so i had the opportunity to go to court and talk to sheriffs, bailiffs, and judges while dazed. So i did and it was fun, enjoyable, exciting. Then i got a pre-trial set for a few weeks so i went home. Then last night i was hanging out with my friend Joe, we had planned to go see wedding crashers, 7.7/10, but then another friend of his stopped by and the consensus changed to "lets go to the bars". So we went to the bars, after we consumed numerous liberations at joe's house. All was fine and good until we were leaving and i was driving down a street, there was an inch of snow on the ground so all you can see are tire tracks, so i am following some tracks on a road i don't normally travel on. Then i see a cop, i tense up and drive the best i can, then the cop turns behind me, then the cop turns on their lights, and i pull over. This cute female cop asks if i know why i was pulled over, i don't, she tells me that this isn't a one way street so i was driving on the wrong side of the road, she asks if i was drinking, obviously. She takes my id, i wait in the car, i remember that if you put pennies in your mouth the copper is supposed to mask some of the alcohol, two more cop cars pull behind her, she asks me to step out of the vehicle and perform some field sobriety tests, i have had practice twice before and passed both previous times, i first must walk heal to toe for ten spaces turn around and come back, i do pretty well (great when considering my level of inebriation), then i stand on one foot until the count of 30, done. Then she gives me a breathalizer, i can only see part of the number reading, i can only see .0, i am positive that putting a penny in my mouth lowered my score considerably because i was easily over .1. She then asks me various questions about how often i drink, if i can handle alcohol pretty well, do i have a high tolerance, etc. I emphatically agree, she then asks if i can call someone to come pick me up, i most certainly can. Then the officer comes back and tells me i was just over the limit, "i was hugging the limit" and that she was only giving me a ticket for "operating left of center"