So student comes in this morning
and tells me his tale of woe:
[Paraphrasing]
“Sorry for my tone but I just got pulled over for a speeding ticket, was doing 80 in a 65. I tell the cop that I was only going with the flow of traffic and that I actually had to speed up to get over to the right lane and then the side. He starts telling me it’s not about the flow of traffic, it’s about the posted speed and says that I’m giving him guff (or maybe he said “lip”) and he writes me a ticket for speeding and for being in the left lane too long!”
So he rambled a little bit more
about this and how he has to go to court, and taking time off work, and
insurance rates and how it IS about
the flow of traffic and yadi yadi yada and then he slipped this little nugget
in:
[Again, paraphrasing]
“Never mind the fact that I was
playing a video game. I wouldn’t have minded a ticket for distracted driving or
texting or whatever.”
I cut him off to the effect of:
“You were doing 80 and playing a video game?”
His look: what’s your point?
Then:
…
Me:
So enjoy your commute home tonight,
knowing that Joe Student out there is not only flying by you doing 80 but also trying
to get a high score in Bejeweled.
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