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My thirty-one years of life have yielded only three traffic violations! Why so few? Well, I was taught at home that I should respect everything on four wheels. And this was hammered home to me right from when I was a kid. Plus, I attended a driver education program at a high school. The people conducting the program believed that residents in places where winter conditions could be harsh should know how to handle their cars on snow or sleet or ice. As a result, I grew up into a great driver, always mentally alert and prepared for everything. Yes, like all boys, I loved speed too! Going back to the past, my first ticket resulted from speeding to outrun a curfew at the age of 16. The 1980s saw me getting a ticket for not having a seat belt. The policeman hauled me up for not having a headlamp, and fined me for this too! The third time was when I ran a red light because I wanted to reach home (one and a half hours away from college) as soon as possible. I had stayed up the whole night!

But last week, having moved and been new in town just recently-in the last couple of months-I got pulled over for speeding. Yikes! I was a bit startled, really, as in my terms I was not speeding, but was doing 44 in a part of town where, I have since studied, the signs go from 35 to 25 to 35 to 25 (in one spot TWO SIGNS, one for 35 AND one for 25 are together?????)almost like a speed trap set-up, if you ask me.

Anyway, the officer let me off with a smile and a jovial warning. When he discovered that my last speeding ticket was received 30 years ago, he felt that I needed refresher courses and advised me to go for traffic school online.

This traffic school online had been a common point of conversation among friends for quite some time. What I had gathered was that by re-educating yourself about traffic rules, you could ensure that no further points were added to your driving record. The insurance rates which were going up all the time would not affect us then. Again, we would save money by not indulging in red light violations. While we had to shell out $107 in earlier days as fine amount, now it was a staggering $400!

I have started the research, and found that, logically, one should use an accredited traffic school online-one which is legitimate and will issue you the documentation you need to prove to the courts you have paid your penance. I have also found that traffic school online can be manageable, allowing you to study at your own pace and during the hours you are available; that traffic school online is cheap; and that traffic school online, if you search long enough, will appeal to your particular learning style-giving you games if you are a doer, text only if you prefer verbal instruction, and cartoons and short films if you are more of a visual learner.

I have decided to enroll myself in traffic school online. My choice would be comedy or games and cartoons. I hope to end the course with honors and not too much humiliation. After all, I learnt everything 31 years ago, and do forget my lessons sometimes!

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