Uncanny | Roma Peddle
Try this for uncanny. I'm sure most of you have gotten to experience the wild thrill of being pulled over for running a stop sign, a red light, speeding -or in some cases- driving recklessly, but I have come to the realization that I have a serious issue with it.
Last year, as a freshman at SUU, I decided to live at home in Parowan (with the help of my mom pleading me daily) and therefore would have to drive to and from Cedar everyday. Some days this consisted of multiple trips, which to me were SO time consuming, and could easily be accelerated (no pun on the gas pedal intended) by driving faster. So, as it would seem, I'd get a little bit out of control occasionally, and ended up with about 4 speeding tickets, just my first semester.
It didn't stop there, however. On the way back from a spring Lake Powell trip I got pulled over again, in a friend's car, and obtained yet another ticket by the police dept. of Kanab. And then a month later, on the way to a concert in Las Vegas, I got pulled over AGAIN, this time by an Arizona cop. Leave it to me to get pulled over in Arizona on my way to Vegas, even though there's only about a mile, if that, of actual "Arizona" to be found.
So then I moved to California for the summer, learned to drive better, and seemed to forget about all my traffic violations in the beautiful state of Utah. But as soon as I got home, I was welcomed back with multiple letters, from multiple police stations, looking for my ticket payments. I spent today talking and pleading with judges on the phone, trying to reduce ticket fees since I'm a "poor college student, trying to pay for school" (the tactic only worked on a few), and clearing my name so I'm no longer wanted in two states. The outcome: a lesson well learned, and a debt of $578.... Oops!
Last year, as a freshman at SUU, I decided to live at home in Parowan (with the help of my mom pleading me daily) and therefore would have to drive to and from Cedar everyday. Some days this consisted of multiple trips, which to me were SO time consuming, and could easily be accelerated (no pun on the gas pedal intended) by driving faster. So, as it would seem, I'd get a little bit out of control occasionally, and ended up with about 4 speeding tickets, just my first semester.
It didn't stop there, however. On the way back from a spring Lake Powell trip I got pulled over again, in a friend's car, and obtained yet another ticket by the police dept. of Kanab. And then a month later, on the way to a concert in Las Vegas, I got pulled over AGAIN, this time by an Arizona cop. Leave it to me to get pulled over in Arizona on my way to Vegas, even though there's only about a mile, if that, of actual "Arizona" to be found.
So then I moved to California for the summer, learned to drive better, and seemed to forget about all my traffic violations in the beautiful state of Utah. But as soon as I got home, I was welcomed back with multiple letters, from multiple police stations, looking for my ticket payments. I spent today talking and pleading with judges on the phone, trying to reduce ticket fees since I'm a "poor college student, trying to pay for school" (the tactic only worked on a few), and clearing my name so I'm no longer wanted in two states. The outcome: a lesson well learned, and a debt of $578.... Oops!
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