What’s The Difference?

A lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy. He thinks that he is smarter than the deputy because he is a lawyer from a big city and is cer­tain that he has a bet­ter edu­ca­tion then any cop from this small town. He decides to prove this to him­self and have some fun at the deputy’s expense.

The deputy says,” License and reg­is­tra­tion, please.”

“What for?” says the lawyer.

The deputy says, “You didn’t come to a com­plete stop at the stop sign.”

Then the lawyer says, “I slowed down, and no one was coming.”

“You still didn’t come to a com­plete stop.” says the deputy, “License and reg­is­tra­tion, please.”

The lawyer says, “What’s the difference?”

“The dif­fer­ence is you have to come to com­plete stop, that’s the law. License and reg­is­tra­tion, please!” the Deputy says.

The lawyer says, “If you can show me the legal dif­fer­ence between slow down and stop, I’ll give you my license and reg­is­tra­tion; and you give me the ticket. If not, you let me go and don’t give me the ticket.”

“That sounds fair. Please exit your vehi­cle, sir,” the deputy says.

The deputy takes out his night­stick and starts beat­ing the ever-loving crap out of the lawyer and says, “Do you want me to stop, or just slow down?”