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 finish reading skimming 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!




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