September 22, 2009
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Driver Safety Class Hell
The Crime : making an illegal left turn into a gas station that had no customers in the middle of the day.
The Cop: Stereotypical jerk.
The cop informs me that going to court will cost me WAY more money, but if I take the online safety class, I will only pay $105.00 AND will be on supervision. So even though my friends tell me going to court is way better, cheaper, AND you still get supervision, I believe the cop.
I won't make that mistake again.
Day one, hour one, of the Online Safety class is not bad. I got to play a couple games like Wheel of Speed and Tic Tac Collision. Good times, got full allotted points, AND I figured out how to skip two boring video's and click next before they started.
I learn that I have until the end of September to finish Online Safety School, so of course I quit after hour one and don't look at it again until late Sunday night. I have approximately 4 hours left.Lets just say those 4 hours got old really fast.
First, they didn't even mix up the games, same games, different questions. What's up with that? I thought I would play Are you Smarter than a Drunk Driver? And maybe some Family Road Rage.
I could no longer skip the videos no matter how hard I tried to click next.
I would finishreadingskimming the page, but the monotonous voice on the page ( who reads to you out loud) took longer than our low level readers at work!
You can't move on, click next, until he's done.
Also, I know I did a "bad" thing. I committed a crime, I made an illegal left turn, into a gas station, even though the sign was NOT clearly posted. I can accept that, and I paid for it. Well, okay, my mom sent me the money, but still...
I think it's really unfair that I had to answer trick questions about speeding and taking cold medication while driving, when I didn't do those things. I mean yes, I have done those things in the past, but I think one hour of lecturing on illegal left turns would have been sufficient. In fact, in the whole five hour class I think illegal left turns was mentioned once. It may have not even be mentioned at all.
Monotonous man was condescending. I can read all by myself and am hopeful that all licensed drivers can also read. I don't need to be told that I shouldn't get in the car after fighting with my ex husband, crying, taking two Xanax, and drinking a bottle of wine.
And the chances of me counting three seconds to make sure I have enough space between the driver in front of me and myself, are pretty slim. I'm sorry monotonous man, it's just not going to happen.I have some suggestions for the class too. New games, simulated crashes that you can maneuver yourself. Free booze with every class so that you can then play DUI, and see how it affects your reaction time. Maybe some Sims like characters that you can make have road rage and you can see what happens when you don't put the baby in the car seat. That would make the whole class worth it.
As it stands I would have to give the class 1 and a half stars.
I did learn one valuable lesson after the five hour online safety class, and that is
Next time I'll go to court!
Comments (11)
The added incentives of a real class is that you can meet other offenders. I went to a Truck driver approved safety class with a snack break in between the long class.
I too got a ticket for crossing the double yellow line. I took it to court and showed them a picture of where it occured. Fortunately the double yellow line ended where supposedly I crossed the line and reluctantly they had to drop the case.
Unfortunately you only can take traffic class once every six months or a year. The class if taken removes any record of violating a moving offense which was motivation enough for me to take one.
Totally enjoyable report from the scene of the crime. I learn most of what I know from xanga.
One small quibble: 'see how it effects'... I'd go with 'affects', that's the verb you meant. Learned that in grammar-court, ha. And if every Israeli driver who makes an illegal turn every five minutes were off the road, there'd be weeds growing through the macadam here.
you;re still funny! my husband did it and he didn't seem to mind much. maybe he did but i can't remember. ha!
My son did the online class rather than go to a real class. I remember my daughter having to go but they didn't have online then...but different classes offered different things...like ice cream party or taught by a comedian.
@PPhilip - I like snack breaks.
@jsolberg - thanks, I fixed the grammar mistake. Phew. I flunked that class.
@hilaw - hummm, Maybe his wasn't as long
@PrincessFiveandDime - I want an ice cream comedian class!!!!!!
That doesn't even sound like a safety issue!
@gottobereal64 - what? My crime, or the whole class?
I don't know the entry you talked about but if it is as you say..No one learned anything. I had to G0 to a class for no seat belt on....to things in that class....First: The policeman who was the "professor" said he was not there to argue the point of whether or not we should use seat belts; he didn't give a rat's whether we had one on or not it was just the law. He did say that if we had a child in the car not securely in one that he would chase us through 3 counties. In the film I was told somewhere in Europe they don't use crash dummies. They use prisoners with life or death sentences. Then they set up different scenerios and if the driver lives through it he is pardoned. Enough is enough, I learned a lot more when I was hit with $175.00 ticket a year or so later. I still hate seat belts they choke me and restrict my head from turning I think making my driving unsafe,(I am short and they go up around my neck) but I wear them.
~ mom
@mommachatter - actually your class sounds kind of fun
What's the big deal? The woman in the picture looks like she's having a great time.
Hey, are you still around? Blogging elsewhere?
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