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I was driving home from work tonight when I got pulled over turning into a convenience store. The first weird thing was that it seemed like the lights came on right after I had started to break and had my turn signal on. I'm sitting there for a good 15 seconds thinking what the heck? As I wait for an opening in traffic so I could continue on my route which has now become a traffic stop.

I pull in and hand him my IDs when he comes over. He states he pulled me over for going 40 in a 35. Again I'm thinking what the heck. I know that's a perfectly legal reason for them to pull me over if I'm going over the speed limit but I've never heard of anyone getting pulled over for 5 over unless it was a school zone. I really don't know if I was going 35 or 40. I very well may have been so just say "sorry, my bad." He asks for my insurance so I go to get that and as I'm leaning over to get it I hear him go "Oh, CHL" <cringe> Here I am reaching into my glove box and he didn't know I handed him my CHL. I had figured he'd noted it and was okay. Nothing really happened of it though and I just told him it wasn't on me (as it wasn't) and handed him my insurance.

He checks shines the light on my tags to make sure they aren't expired before going back to his car. This was probably the shortest I've ever sat waiting. It felt like maybe just 20 seconds. He comes back and asks me a series of questions, where am I coming from, where do I work, what do I do there, how long have I worked there.

He then asks for a good number to reach me at. I give him my phone number and realize he's writting it down on a small note pad with other phone numbers, non of which have names next to them. He then hands me my IDs and tells me to slow down and leaves (no ticket). Overall quick & easy, he was very polite the whole time.

So I'm hoping an LEO can chime in and tell me what just happened. After mulling it over here is what I've come up. Let me know if this sounds plausible. I was driving down the road and the cop turned on the street behind me shortly before I started to turn into the store. Maybe he thought I had just noticed him behind me and was trying to "lose him" b/c I had something to hide. Because he thinks I may have something to hide he asks me a series of, what I viewed, as irrelevant questions to see if I am lying about "something".

Even if that is the case or not, why did he ask for my phone number in the form a question "what's a good number to reach you at?"