Speeding

My dad and I were discussing speeding earlier.  I had told him how it was strange that I had never been pulled over before.  Stopped while walking down the street a couple of times, but never pulled over while driving.  It’s weird because I’m a perpetual speeder.  I aim for twenty over the limit (I figure that any higher and I’d be asking for a ticket) and I change lanes frequently to get around other cars.  I guess I’m just lucky.  Or it could be that I actually pay attention to the road, including the oncoming traffic.  If I see a police car then I break.  Maybe doing seventy in a fifty zone just isn’t that fast.  I’m not sure how many demerit points it would be worth.

What I’m really curious about is why people speed.  If the limit was seventy in a residential area, would I go ninety?  If it was a hundred would I go one-twenty?  I’d like to think not.  I’d like to believe that I drive at what I consider a safe and reasonable speed.  On a wide open road, why bother going sixty kilometers an hour?  That’s just pussy.  I don’t even think there should be speed limits.  There should only be unsafe driving laws.  If you see someone doing a hundred in a school zone when there are kids everywhere, pull him over.  If you see someone doing two hundred in the middle of the night on a highway with no traffic around, leave him be.  Let people regulate themselves.  I think it’d work just fine.

Except the government would lose a lot of cheddar which, as we all know, can’t happen.

P.S. I just drove by the sign I knocked over and it’s been fixed.  Yay for ducking responsibility.

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