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I don't know how the trooper could have known that the "card had printed at midnight" but the rest of the tale is familiar.

I was traveling up 75 in Plano Texas at about 0200, and as I pulled off at my exit I could see blue and reds lit up way down the road, and nearer there were carss off the road with their lights off. As I passed the unlit cars, one of them pulled out of the grass and started following me, and then he lit me up.

I pulled over and stopped and turned on the overhead light. The young Plano police officer who approached was, I think, sure he had caught me trying to go around the drunk sweep, and was equally sure I had been drinking, and violated one of the cardinal rules of traffic stops by putting body parts into the car, in this case his head as he tried, vainly, to sniff my breath.

I turned over my license and registration and insurance, and away he went to his car. He came back and asked me if I was "packing" and my first response was to wonder how he knew that I was to travel later that day, and I remained somewhat confused until he finally made it clear that he wanted to know if I was carrying a gun. I told him no, that I did not have a CHL (MPA did not exist yet) and he told me that according to their records I did.

He gave me a warning for license plate light out, and my plastic arrived in the mail that day.