Silver cars in rain and fog 2886

Careful. You are buttuming a lot which simply isn't true. For the past few decades and well over a million (yes, million) miles, I have a perfect driving record. I even have written proof of that. When I moved recently, I needed an "abstract" of my driving record to get a driver's license in my new home state. The "abstract" of my driving record shows 20 years with NO activity. No accidents, no speeding tickets. NOTHING. Oh, and that only covers the last 20 years. If I'd needed an abstract to get THAT license, it would have showed the previous ten years with NO activity, also. And the one before that and the one before that . . . (god it sucks to be old)

From time to time, I have been stopped by cops and given verbal warnings for speeding. This is a pain in the butt, as every single time I've been stopped, I was either driving the same exact speed as everybody else on the road, or even SLOWER. One time I was stopped for speeding, 56-55. That's right . . . I was doing 56MPH in a 55MPH zone. If you are wondering why I was going so slow, it was because I'd just entered the highway, was not in a hurry at all, and was still accelerating (smoothly). The cop flat out TOLD ME that he'd pulled me over for doing 56MPH in a 55MPH zone. NOT ONCE during that traffic stop did the cop ever bother to look at me. Most of the time I was pulled over on the side of the road, the cop was leaning in my pbuttenger side window staring down the shirt of my gorgeous fiance', checking out her incredible breasts. Not that I blame him, because she had a body to die for, back then. But it was hardly what I'd call professional behavior. I'm 100% certain that the ONLY reason I was stopped that day is so that the cop could get a closer look at my fiance'. Yeah, he said he stopped me for doing 56MPH in a 55MPH zone. Yeah, whatever . . . so why wasn't I ticketed?

I have a healthy disdain for cops as I've observed their behavior on duty to often be not exactly professional. I do everything I can to limit my contact with them. One simple way to do this is to make yourself less visible, such as keeping lights OFF during the daytime, even if raining. Don't make the mistake of buttuming that makes someone a dangerous driver. My driving record is much better than the vast majority of drivers on the road. If you even have one ticket on your record in the past few decades, your record is much worse than mine. I would never do anything to seriously compromise safety. Knowing that I'm less visible in the rain, I deliberately leave more space around my vehicle so I have more time to react to what other drivers are doing. I haven't once been in a situation where my safety was compromised because other people couldn't see me. Regardless of weather conditions, you should always drive as if you expect everybody else on the road to be incompetent (because many drivers are indeed just that), unless you want to end up being a statistic. -Dave