Monday, June 16, 2014

What? So What? Now What?

So I did not attend the community service event (I had permission to be excused).  Instead, I got to spend that Sunday sitting through a driver's class.  I got a ticket and had to pay the price...well at least pay the price to not have points taken off of my license: aka 5 hours of drivers ed.  I really didn't learn too much, as most of the knowledge taught was a repeat of what I learned before taking my drivers test.  We pretty much just sat there while a guy periodically interrupted an educational movie to recite the appropriate questions from the company script.  I did learn that in the city of Troy, MI they are particularly keen on pulling people over for texting and driving.  I also learned about Michigan's super drunk law.  It basically says that if you are pulled over and blow a .17 or higher you are automatically fined $20,000, your license is suspended for 6 months, you will have to participate in the color system (aka call a hotline every morning at like 6am and on the lucky days your color's call, you must drive to the court house and breathalize), and you will most likely have a breathalizer-starter for the ignition in your car...apparently the judge's daughter for this county was killed by a drunk driver so she has no patience for drinking and driving (not that I would ever do such a thing anyway because it's just plain stupid).  My experience was pretty much exactly what I expected, although I was pleasantly surprised by the instructor; he was an entertaining guy.  I didn't really learn hardly anything from the other group members except a few random things that anger people why they drive.  Pretty much nothing learned in that class pertains to lab.  If anything, it helped condition my patience sitting through boring/unwanted activities.  If I could do it all over again...I may take the points...not really, I wouldn't have done anything differently, because it's hard just sit and listen in any other way.

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