Since it has been almost a month since I first got my speeding ticket, yesterday I finally sat down and enrolled in the traffic school. I got to say this: can I have my four hours back?

First and foremost, I still maintain that it was bad of me to be speeding. I think what frustrated me most was the fact that the cop singled me out. On my way to work the other day, a mini cooper shot by me in a 35 mph zone was doing at least 100 mph.

And I was the one busted for speeding? Yeah. Real fair.

To keep my bitterness at bay, let me go back to the point at hand: really, is four hours necessary? I’m a fast reader. It’s something I’m pretty proud of and Mack as well. It boggles his mind sometimes that I can read faster then him since he has always been a really fast reader. I give credit to those countless hours I have spent reading romance novels and all the lessons upon lessons I have learned in reading them. While they might be dumb reads, you get pretty fast at reading them when stuff repeats itself.

Being a fast reader helped me get through the lessons but often only took me 15 minutes of the 25 minutes I was allowed. And the last lesson on Florida laws that last 55 minutes? Yeah… I was done in about 10 minutes. While I get the point in teaching me a lesson about being a responsible driver, I don’t think I’m really learning a lesson in sitting around unable to move until the next lesson so I can meet a minimum time requirement. Wouldn’t my time be better spent cleaning my apartment which reduces my stress which in turn can affect my ability to drive?

Also, some of the lessons and statements made in the drivers school were downright… scary.

“A driver’s inhibition weakens as the alcohol content in the body increases. This is why men buy ladies drinks.”

Yes. This is the ONLY reason why men buy alcohol for ladies: to get us drunk and steal our virtue. Have they been reading up on my lessons on romance? I think the most encouraging thing I got out of this was the fact I know my signs and traffic laws and was just an idiot to get caught speeding.

Have any of you done traffic school and felt it was a completely waste of your time to save yourself points? Or did it enforce a “lesson learned” for you and will prevent you from doing it again? I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m severely tempted not to speed (although everyone in the area does at least 20 mph over) ever again so that I won’t have to take this traffic class again.

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