No, I was not stopping the traffic, in fact I was the only one in a turning lane, I was not talking on the phone, nor putting a make-up. Oh well, I didn't try to argue, I guess I was too in a good mood or something.
What does quietly frustrates me is the fact that there are so many bad drivers in north america (both in Canada and US) and they just get away with that. I was taught to blink when I change lanes or turn, stop for crossing pedestrians, not to talk over the phone while driving, not to pass other cars on the right side, not to speed, etc... Even that actually one needs to know and show the knowledge of all those rules on a driving test, it seems like once one is done and has a valid drivers license, everything becomes optional.
Anyway, I just needed to say that out loud.
On a positive note, I will share with you a way one CAN get away from a ticket.
We were driving on I-87, somewhere up state NY. It was dark and a very raining evening. We were tired and wanted to get to Montreal as fast as we could. So Morten was driving 80 mile per hour. Up state NY is a deserted place where no kids playing on the roads, and no even animals crossing the road. Anyway, suddenly we realize that we were busted and a police was pulling us. Alright, I agree with that.
So the police office comes to us and observes the following:
- Car with Quebec license
- Driver (Morten) with Danish license
- Insurance with an unpronounceable name
- Passanger, me, a lady (heavily pregnant with a broken foot)
- Back passengers, two screaming children
What a mess.
So he had two choices:
a. try to clarify, verify, figure out what to do with us and how to issue us the fine or
b.to ask us only one question: Are you on your way to the hospital?
He decided to follow his instinct and asked us the question.
Automatically, and guilty of that, we said "yes". So we were told that the nearest is 12 miles from where we were. That was all. Boy that was close....
However that slowed us down. The only thing we were concerned about if the office would be so kind to escort us to the hospital. But he didn't.
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