(Perhaps) get a speeding ticket

...the ticket, not so much.

I say it’s Not Worth It… if you get caught. O:-)

I speed, but I use my blinker and follow all the other un-spoken laws: like not tail-gaiting or driving in the break-down lane just so I can pass people in traffic on the highway. ;)

You know they’re coming for you as soon as you see the lights, but you try and justify to yourself, “maybe they’re going for someone else.” The realization hits you that you are indeed a criminal and there’s that brief several seconds where you think about running from ‘em. You think about how drastically different life will be when you’re on the run and how you’ll only be able to contact your mom through anonymous care packages filled with your regret and smashed Oreo cookies. “Did my kindergarten teacher know that the kid playing with the Flintstones’ phone would grow up to be Johnny Run-From-The-Law?” Then you figure, “maybe I’ll pull over and I can negotiate my way out of this.” But you know you’re going to pay Mr. Out-of-State-Plates. It all ends in a sordid mess where you end up being overly polite to a person who is only biding their time because they don’t have any real crime to stop.

Here’s the list of reason’s I’ve been pulled over for:

Driving too fast
Driving too slow
Driving behind a cop who was responding to an emergency call without his lights on (and still took enough time out from saving someone from who know’s what tragedy to give me a ticket)
That tiny li’l sticker on you license plate being out of date
Going 120 MPH across some empty highway in the middle of Montana
No seatbelt
Checking to see if my new car could go over 100 MPH

So, have you ever followed someone down a one lane road for a bunch of miles with no chance to pass? Of course you have.

Then, when that road dumps onto a highway, you blow by the person. Yep. I did that today, and we both got pulled over. I got a ticket for 81 in a 55. :-\ Oh well. I’ll pay it and plead no contest, but I wonder what the other person was clocked at.

okay well lets just say, now that I’ve actually gotten in trouble with the law – I don’t want to get in trouble again so FORGET PERHAPS GETTING A SPEEDING TICKET

...im getting a radar detector…

I drove home very slowly…

... I was driving to the airport to pick up my mom. Naturally I didn’t want to leave her waiting, especially because she was returning from a long, emotional trip to see her ailing mother in New Zealand.

I hit the road with more than enough time to get to LAX. I was rolling down the freeway, off to a good start, and then… PARKING LOT! Traffic was literally stopped. I know, LA traffic is notoriously bad, but I was still in the suburbs at 10 am. I couldn’t move an inch, let alone find a way off the freeway to take an alternate route. About a half hour later, we started moving, and I realize what the problem was- a bank near a freeway offramp had just been robbed, so they halted traffic.

I was so delayed that I thought I’d make up some time by going faster than I should. Then I decided to take a different route, one of the beach canyons that lead to Malibu. I exited the highway, hauled butt for about a mile, and then… I saw a cop parked on the side of the road. I knew it was too late, that for sure he’d seen me already. Still, I hoped he’d let it slide. Nope. I got the ticket.

I was furious! If it hadn’t been for that stupid bank robbery, if my mom had scheduled a different flight, blah blah blah… The fact of the matter is, I deserved it. I was headed into a canyon SPEEDING, after all. Hello, bad idea. I should have thanked him, actually, who knows what could have happened.

When I got to the airport, my mom had just walked out to the curb. She had to go through Customs that day, which held her up for quite a while. I could ahve drivin the spped limit the wholoe time and still made it with more than enough time to spare.

Lesson learned.

Don’t speed. It’s dangerous. I’ve got two speeding tickets on my driving record. :( Expensive and makes your insurance premium go up. Driving school only works once every 720 days (2 years) here.

the cop walked up to my window and said…. surprise surprise… haha what a douche.. I mean, was he saying it wasnt a surprise I was a teenager…

anywho.. I agree it keeps u from getting too cocky! I think we all new something to put perspective on things (weather good or bad)!