Cops in small towns are a special breed of cop. A lot of them have some serious time to kill, and will pick on obviously innocent people just to give them something to do. Yeah, always have your ID handy, no matter where you're going. They can mess with you really easily if you can't supply it ASAP. The one time I didn't have my ID I got pulled over, and the cop read me the riot act. He asked about a zillion questions (they want to see if you hesitate in answering anything), and did a check on me that took about a half hour. I'm a white chick in my heavily insured, legally registered vehicle in whitebread suburbia--I can only imagine what would happen in a backward-ass little town in the middle of nowhere. Mari--for what it's worth, I don't think you look like a terrorist!
