Before I retired, I had this one location that I loved to drive my police car and just watch the cars go by. I use to write or finish my police reports at this location. It was in a big parking lot, which overlooked a six-lane parkway. I made many decisions, sitting at this location. Most of the time, the parking lot was empty, so I practically had it to myself.
This was my “think time”. Time to catch up on my reports and traffic citations I had written that day. Of course, this was between police calls and everything was quite, except that computer voice on my laptop that kept saying “you have mail waiting”. I always had mail waiting on my police computer.
I would sometimes check out my 30 minutes for lunch and just sit watching the cars go by.
This was not a glorious place, such as a lake or the ocean, but it was my think tank.
Being retired, I can think back to this location and associate it with calls I received and people I arrested.
The past is the past, but the memories never fade away.