First Run in with the Mexican Police

On Saturday, Mike and I were trying to get from Polanco (where our condo is located) back to Santa Fe (where the hotel we are staying in is located). We took many wrong turns, got on the wrong ramp, going the wrong direction on the highway...and eventually ended up back on Reforma, one of the main drags in Mexico. However, we were going in the wrong direction...not surprising. After driving several miles down Reforma, we came to a stoplight and made a u-turn...where we promptly got pulled over by a cop, who was standing there with several other cops, waiting for more illegal u-turns!

The cop, who looked about 15 years old, but may have been 18, walked up, started speaking Spanish, to which we just stared at him blankly, until we had the opportunity to say "hablo muy pocito espanol". He then smiled and kept speaking in Spanish, using his hands to also tell us that our u-turn was illegal. He kept repeating the word "infraction" in Spanish. So, after a few minutes of us continuing to say, "no entiendo" and "no se", I said "tu necessito??" He said "tarjeta", so we got out Mike's US driver's license. He looked at it, asked Mike his name, gave the card back, and waved us on our way!

The next day, at the same intersection, we saw the same cop and his friends... Luckily we were headed in the right direction, so we avoided another conversation!