I once received a ticket for going 12 miles over the speed limit in Texas.  I was driving down I-10 and I was in one of those tunnel-vision modes, just cruising along.  A Texas State Trooper pulled up behind me and to be honest I didn’t even realize it until I was getting pulled over.

So I go to court and request to take a Texas Defensive Driving Course.  Like most others I started getting the cards in the mail, and I decided to go and take one of the courses because of the free pizza offered.

Here I am sitting in this dusty old classroom with a teacher mumbling out different Texas Laws and Regulations, the whole time thinking how mad I was that I got caught speeding.  This was not a fun experience.  The only thing I could think of is how good that pizza was going to taste.  The pizza was delivered 20 minutes before our break, so by the time we were ready to eat it was cold.  So there it was, boring stuffy class, cold pizza, and that state trooper was probably home sleeping on this Saturday.

Needless to say over the years I’ve gotten a few more speeding tickets.  I’ve started to take Online Texas Defensive Driving Courses now instead of those classroom ones.  I personally like how much easier it is.

-John Shifton
-Texas Driver