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Traffic School Drives Me Crazy

Haha. Get it? I loves me some puns.

So, in addition to paying a $500 fine and having 8 points instantly slam onto my license for my stupid little moving escapade, I was required to take Traffic Survival School. For those of you who have taken Defensive Driving School to wipe a ticket off your record, this is different.

This class is assigned by the MVD to people who have reached probationary status on their license. At eight points if you don't take this class within the 90 day time limit, they automatically suspend your license. Also at eight points you cannot get one more point-accruing infraction in the next two years or they suspend your license. I can get one ticket and wipe it out with Defensive School (if and only if it's civil, not criminal). Beyond that, any points hit my license and I am without driving privileges for at least three months.

One nice part about taking this class was the very beginning of the first day. The teacher had us go around the room and introduce ourselves and tell how we got there. After a roomful of DUI, extreme DUI, red-light running, and driving on a suspended license it go to me. I went last.

Me: Mine is kind of a story.

Teacher: A story? All right, let's hear it.

I started with how John and Ryan were standing on the runner-boards while we went ten miles and hour for a hundred yards down an empty residential street. I told how the cop saw us pull away from the first house and pulled me over in front of the destination house, and watched as John and Ryan went inside the house. That is relevent because it means he could see we weren't going far at all. At this point I still hadn't mentioned what I got cited for. The teacher looked perplexed.

Teacher: So, what was the charge?

Me: Reckless driving.

With that the whole class erupted in a mixture of surprise and outrage. Not only did they all agree that I got shafted, but even the teacher was on my side.

Teacher: I've been doing this for three years, and I have never heard of anything like that. That cop was in a bad mood or something. I'm sorry that you have to be here.

It's guys like that jerkass cop that make me hope against hope that karma is real.

Tomorrow: I address a quote from one of the Traffic School videos.

Traffic School Video Guy: We can't legislate common sense.

COMMENTS:

I don't know, Joey... Seems like you are a threat to society to me. John and Ryan should be muzzled and restrained at all times.
Crohn 01.04.07 - 7:48 pm

True enough about those two, but they are not my responsibility.
Am I my moron's keeper?
Joey 01.05.07 - 1:29 pm

Perhaps karma is real. Can you think of anything you might have done to deserve a pointless traffic ticket?
Guillermo 01.05.07 - 1:30 pm

It takes a village to raise an idiot, Joseph.
Crohn 01.05.07 - 8:10 pm