The moment I thought I was getting arrested...

The next weekend or so I go to church in Maryland with my boyfriend's (at the time) sister and brother and I end up spending the night at his sister's. As I was getting dressed to return home, a college friend FB messengered me with an invitation to go to the National Aquarium in D.C. I decide to drive back to a metro station closer to my apartment here and ride the metro in so I wouldn't have so far to drive back home. Well as I am driving, the GPS is not taking me back the way it took me the previous time I left Maryland-seemed to be really taking me out of the way, especially when I saw the sign ahead of me as big as day - 95-S/495-S. So I think, why go 20 miles out of my way when the highway I want is right here? I take the 95-S/495-S and ignore Google maps. Something wasn't right. All the signs seemed to be bringing me closer to D.C.!. Keep in mind, my friend has already been there 30-40 minutes so I texted her that I wasn't likely to make it. I get off an exit, reprogram Google maps and try again. This seems to be looking better, only I see a strange site ahead in the distance and a sign that says something about a bridge. The Woodrow Wilson Drawbridge. So I am not really fond of bridges, especially these crazy modern contemporary designed ones that look as if they are held together by spider webs. I mean for crying out loud, there are traffic lights on the bridge! So I finally make it into the city, drop my car off @ the metro station and catch the metro to the city to go to the aquarium. As I come up out of the metro station, I am looking for signs that will lead me to the aquarium and as I walk into the building, place my purse on the xray machine conveyor belt. It was then that I remember that I have a stun gun in my purse. By the way, the aquarium is in the basement of a FEDERAL BUILDING-Department of something or other. Naturally I am nervous and pray that the fact that it is also a flashlight will get me through but NO, the slightly pronged tips give it away and security stops me. They inform me that they will have to call the supervisor and can't just hold it for me while I visit the aquarium. As I wait for the supervisor and attempt to pray, the security guard begins to marvel at and question me re:the stun gun. Voltages? Why I have a stun gun? Where did I get it? One guard calls over the other one and asks her "Don't you have this model? No girl, I have the old model-this here is the NEW joint!" So the supervisor arrives and asks me why I have it. "Let's see, I am single and I live alone in D.C.! He then informs me that stun guns were banned 2 years ago in D.C. and that I could/should be arrested on the spot! He tells me to not show it to anyone. I tell him thank you and not to worry because I will NOT be hanging around in the city. I was getting back on the metro and heading back to VA!