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In my experience in California (I have yet to get pulled over in Texas), a lot of whether or not you get a ticket has to do with the attitude that you serve up to the officer - as long as your violation isn't so out of line that he/she simply has no choice but to ticket you. And on a couple of occasions, I've been ticketed for far less than the actual offense when the officer decided to cut me some slack because I did the same for him.

So far, the only time I've had to talk "business" with an officer in Texas was when my wife's car was whacked by a hit-and-run driver a week ago. In that particular case, the officer never asked to see either my wife's or my IDs, so there were no CHLs produced. (She has hers too, and she was actually disappointed that he didn't ask. Isn't that cute?)

I think the funniest CHL/LEO exchange I've ever seen was on this board, when one of our members recounted having been asked by an LEO if he had his weapon on him. When our member replied in the affirmative, the officer said something like "tell you what. . . .you don't show me yours, and I won't show you mine."