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This week was hell, I have been so exhausted every day from work, then coming home late to do whatever homework I can muster will power to do, then crash because of exhaustion and then do it all over again.  Thankfully it is Saturday, so I slept in and recuperated from the hellish week, (slept some much needed 12 hours).  Woke up, had a late and light lunch.  Picked up my mail and low and behold there is the letter from Barker Town Court telling me how much I’ll need to pay for the speeding ticket I got when we went Snowboarding.  It was a whooping $305.00.  So there goes a chunk of my paycheck.  *sighs*  At least its done and over with.  But, a couple lessons I’ve learned:

1) Never admit to anything  to the police.  It seems totally ridiculous given that in our society we generally want truth and accountability in others, for example, you’d want friends to tell you the truth, you’d want doctors and lawyers to tell you the truth, etc.  But, when getting pulled over by the police, never admit any guilt and when asked that wonderful question: “Do you know why you were pulled over?” say: “No” or  “I can’t think of anything”  Even though you know well enough that you were speeding or toerhwise breaking the law.  Now this is contrary to who I am, I prefer to tell the truth rather than lie (probably because I’m usually a bad liar).  So, of course when I was pulled over, I did the stupid thing and pretty much admitted that I was speeding.  Never again.

2) Arguably, this should’ve been #1, but of course, don’t speed.  An argument might be made to say speeding saves time, which means you take less time to get where you are going, and the probability of getting caught and paying a ticket is less than the actual saved time multiplied by how valuable your time is.  Now for me, the ticket being $305, lets say the probability of getting a ticket is… 25%, since I’ve driven the path four times, got caught once out of the four.  .25 multiplied by $305, gives us $76.  I probably saved an hour, AT MOST, of my time by speeding, so I’d have to think my time is worth more than $76.  Something I probably don’t think.  So, in the future, I’m going to drive much more near speed limit, and avoid being in the left lane except to pass cars.

So, I guess I paid $305 dollars to learn a lesson, and now I must go ahead and get to studying.