Tree Trouble

Because Maude is driving too fast, the policeman holds them (H. and M.) and asks Maude if she has a driving licence. Of course, Maude has never had a driving licence and that's why she begins to explain the meaning of this license which she should have. She hands out her personal opinion which you can read on page 72 on line 1f.:

'You mean those little pieces of paper with your pictures on it?'

And on line 6 we read:

'I don't have one. I don't believe in them.'

No doubt Maude's lifestyle is in these sentences. Consequently the policeman cannot realy understand what Maude means, he has not except these kind of answers.
The policeman's odyssey progresses. On the same page on line 17 we read:

'No, no. I just took' it [vehicle].'

Maude has stolen the car but she speaks to the policeman that she 'has taken' this car. That's obvious, the policeman does not know what Maude means with 'to take a car'. Possibly, he thinks 'to have and have not'. In conclusion, let's make that clear: They (Maude and Policeman) have a completely different ideas of life - although we must consider that the policeman do his job, we do not know what he thinks really.