[2014] Eyes Pried Open: Rookie FBI Agent by Vincent Sellers

Author:Vincent Sellers [Sellers, Vincent]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography
ISBN: 9781612964409
Amazon: B00Q1UJ6X0
Barnesnoble: B00Q1UJ6X0
Goodreads: 23610205
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Published: 2014-11-06T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23

Off Duty

I thoroughly enjoyed being an FBI agent when I was not working. It was fun to go to a movie and see FBI agents on the big screen, knowing that if the person sitting next to me realized they were sitting next to an actual agent, they would likely be quite shocked. While seeing the movie Breach, I looked around the theater and counted six other FBI agents that I recognized. Little did the crowd know that they were surrounded by FBI agents while watching this movie about FBI agents!

Shortly after arriving in San Diego, Jennifer and I decided to eat at a local diner in the Mission Valley area. Towards the end of the meal, I realized that I did not have enough cash to pay for the meal and would need to pay with a credit card. I did not yet have my California driver’s license, and I had managed to misplace my Texas license when we moved. My only photo identification was my FBI credentials. FBI agents are not supposed to use their credentials unless it is for FBI business, but I did not have an alternative; I concluded that eating is an essential function for an FBI agent so therefore I would be justified in using my credentials. And quite frankly, as a new agent I was proud and wanted to show off the fact that I was an FBI agent.

When I produced my credentials and showed my picture with the big blue FBI letters in the background, the waitress chuckled and said that it was a decent fake of real FBI identification. She went on to verbally compare my credentials to a fake Elvis driver’s license she had once seen. I laughed and told her that the ID was authentic, and that I had no alternative form of photo identification. She still did not believe me and became visibly flustered. In her mind, I might as well of had the Elvis driver’s license and then seriously told her that I was Elvis. I explained to her that it would be a felony for someone to masquerade as an FBI agent with credentials, and that as an FBI agent, I enforced federal law and would be the last person on earth to attempt to use a fake identification, which would be breaking the very laws that I was responsible for upholding. I also offered that she could call the San Diego FBI field office and ask to speak with my supervisor. Thank goodness, she did not take me up on this, because this probably would have resulted in a less than positive impression by my new boss. Supervisors are under intense pressure and have real problems to deal with. An agent inappropriately identifying himself as an FBI agent so he or she can complete a financial transaction at a diner does not qualify as a real problem. Fortunately, the waitress finally accepted the credit card and processed it for payment, but I do not believe she ever thought that the credentials were real.

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