You could not make this up....
Her: (in the distance) addada adasdad adafdaff
(I ignore her and carry on what I was doing)
Her: ADDADA ADASDAD ADAFDAFF HERE NOW!
Me: I'm sorry (continuing what I'm doing) are you speaking to me?
Her: Yes. I am. Could you come here now.
Me: What for?
Her: I want to speak to you?
Me: (continuing what I'm doing) If you want to speak to me why didn't you just come here rather than standing over there shouting at me?
Her: Are you going to come here or not?
Me: OK just a second
Her: NOW.
Me: Where's the fire?
I go over to her. She and her buddy are PCSOs.
Her: What are you doing?
Me: Talking to you
Her: Joker are we?
Me: No. Not especially.
Her: What is you name and address?
Me: (taken aback): I'm sorry what do you want my name and address for?
Her: For a check
Me: A check for what?
Her: Are you going to give me your name and address?
Me: I'd rather not, until you explain why you want it.
Her: What were you doing?
Me: When?
Her: Just now before I called you over
Me: Oh then, what did it look like I was doing to you?
Her: I don't know sir (dripping with sarcasm) why don't you explain.
Me: I was riding round and round in circles, in the near dark, under the lights in a deserted park practising wheelies and track stands. Then you came along.
Her: We've had reports of anti-social behaviour in this park.
Me: (Sighs - long pause) Are you saying that riding a bike in the park at night is now anti-social?
(as if by magic whoosh a cyclist goes past on the nearby path)
Me: Are they anti-social?
Her: They weren't riding like you, they weren't a potential nuisance.
Me: and I am?
Her: Are you going to give me your name and address?
(I stare past her into space counting slowly to 100)
Me: To whom was I being a nuisance?
Her: You were seen on the cameras
Me: and you came to investigate?
Her: You haven't got any lights on it.
Me: I've got one on the rear but it isn't turned on. I'm in a park. Not much need for lights here.
Her: You need lights at night
Me: Not in the park, not under these lights.
Her: But you will when you leave
Me: Not if I don't ride on the roads
Her: Then how will you get home, it is illegal to ride on the pavements as someone your age should know.
Me: That's a rather ageist statement isn't it? (Takes out smart phone) Besides I will wheel it home (I live less than 100m from park entrance)
Her mate: What's that?
Me: It's my BlackBerry.
Her mate: Put the phone away sir.
Mw: I want to make a note of your badge numbers on it
Her mate: Why is that?
Me: So I can pop into the station over there (nods in direction of police station just on the other side of the park) and make a complaint about you two.
Her mate: I want your name and address now. Get off the bike.
Me: Nope. (I give her my name and address rapidly, she doesn't write it down)
Me: Because...
Me: ... I'm off.
Three seconds later I'm lost in the pitch dark in the centre of the park en route to the police station. The front office is closed after 18:00. Never mind, there is always the interwebs and I know some of the senior plod there. (who will give me a bollocking for being stroppy.)
What a weirdo, riding a mountain bike in the park, (ok at night in the dark, but it gets dark really early these days and I didn't get back from work until after dusk.) I mean really, with the frost on the ground I bet I even broke some grass.