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AIBU?

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Original poster

to not go on a speed awareness course

303 replies

sPJPPp · 08/04/2015 09:51

The course will be 97 and the fine is 100.

I would get three points and my insurance will go up by about 40 next year.

The course is 2 hours drive away and will take 4 hours. So the best part of a day taken away.

Aibu to just take the points as 40 to loose a day off is just not enough.

OP posts:
ReallyTired · 09/04/2015 14:33

lol... I think a lot depends on who the presenter is for such a course. I found that a speed awareness course was about as exciting as watching paint dry. I suspect that most of the population have little interest in stopping distances.

MsRaspberryJam · 09/04/2015 14:33

I have read the thread. She's got a ticket and doesn't sound particularly woeful about it.

Having seen how frequently they are issued, I don't see why she has to display the level of shame apparently required.

Sparklingbrook · 09/04/2015 14:35

She's got a ticket and doesn't sound particularly woeful about it

What an understatement.

MamainMilan · 09/04/2015 14:35

This was about a speeding offence?!

It certainly ain't anymore.

Grin
Sparklingbrook · 09/04/2015 14:36
Grin
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sPJPPp · 09/04/2015 14:36

Thanks Jam for that empathy.

Your exactly right, I'm being flamed for not showing enough shame.

OP posts:
BigRedBall · 09/04/2015 14:38

I found the course really informative. I'll always remember the things I learnt that day.

I genuinely didn't realise I'd speeded as it was just after a 40mph zone. I was doing 37 at a 30 as a result. I keep my eyes open for signs at all times now!

MamainMilan · 09/04/2015 14:38

I suspect that most of the population have little interest in stopping distances

Ah yes. Like anyone gives a shit about those. That'll mark you out as one the 'fab drivers' then. Only crap drivers enjoy it, apparently.

MsRaspberryJam · 09/04/2015 14:38

Oh, well that's ok then. As long as the OP is being harangued for her personality rather than the original issue Confused

Sparklingbrook · 09/04/2015 14:39

I can't imagine what you thought the response would be OP. start an AIBU about a speeding ticket you have received while simultaneously telling us all you are an excellent driver and most other people are rubbish?

EBearhug · 09/04/2015 14:39

I suspect that most of the population have little interest in stopping distances.

That's tough, really. If you choose to be a driver, you have to accept certain responsibilities, and that includes some awareness of stopping distances. It may not be interesting, but you always have the option of not driving.

Snottybiyatch · 09/04/2015 14:40

[Sigh again] S/he doesn't have to show any shame at all about speeding. But equally s/he doesn't have to be as dismissive and sneering as s/he has been about other road users or to say so freely and oft what a 'fab' driver s/he is, or indeed about the 'bonkers' [OP's words] views of people who disagree.

And since gloaty showing off seems to be okay here, could I just say that I once had dealings with someone whose job was to process speeding tickets as your is RJ and I said to her I sympathised, it must be a rotten job as people were bound to be on the defensive and she said, well that's true...I wish they were all like you Ms Biyatch

BackforGood · 09/04/2015 14:42

I suspect that most of the population have little interest in stopping distances

which could be related to why there are so many avoidable RTAs, non?

MsRaspberryJam - You must have missed the majority of the posts then, as there have been very few criticisms of getting the ticket, and no suggestions the OP should display a level of shame. The criticism has been of her attitude to the fact she couldn't possibly learn anything on one of these courses. Plus a little bit of immediate response to her saying she's a fantastic driver.

Snottybiyatch · 09/04/2015 14:46

Oh, well that's ok then. As long as the OP is being harangued for her personality

But that's exactly what s/he is doing to nearly everybody else!

But in any case what has been said in the last few posts has just been to highlight that s/he is NOT being berated for speeding which you had insisted was the case.

And btw, how come you seem to know the gender of OP. F'd if I do!

MsRaspberryJam · 09/04/2015 14:47

You don't have to be a bad driver to get a speeding ticket.

Sparklingbrook · 09/04/2015 14:49

Well from what I can gather the OP has decided to do the course, so it's all good.

Snottybiyatch · 09/04/2015 14:49

You don't have to be a bad driver to get a speeding ticket.

I wouldn't dispute that for a second. Nor has anybody else (might have missed the odd one)

Okay, once more with feeling chaps

The standard of the OP's driving is not in question

Snottybiyatch · 09/04/2015 14:50

Well from what I can gather the OP has decided to do the course, so it's all good.

Ian Fletcher you old bastard, who knew you were on this thread or indeed a Mumsnetter!

Sparklingbrook · 09/04/2015 14:51

You just have to be a speeding driver to get a speeding ticket surely?

Sparklingbrook · 09/04/2015 14:53

I have been pondering a name change Snotty. Grin

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sPJPPp · 09/04/2015 14:58

Oh, well that's ok then. As long as the OP is being harangued for her personality

Thanks, apparently I'm the one hounding everyone else for their personalityConfused

Anyway I'm about to flounce off, not doing the course as insurance quotes are no different and the same old bores keep saying the same things. It really is gang mentality in here.

OP posts:
Sparklingbrook · 09/04/2015 14:59
Hmm
DidoTheDodo · 09/04/2015 15:00

OP: AIBU?
Everyone: Yes
OP: I'm flouncing.

Splendid!

Icimoi · 09/04/2015 15:00

Clearly no-one is requiring speeders to show shame on this thread - otherwise all those who have admitted to having been on these courses or having points on their licence would be universally berated for not hanging their heads in shame. But there's a difference between not showing shame and exhibiting active arrogance about your driving skills when the evidence of the speeding ticket suggests otherwise.

Snottybiyatch · 09/04/2015 15:01

Erm I think the fact that the majority of people disagree with you means that they may have a point: it does not equate to ganging up, necessarily, especially as most of the outrageousness seems to have originated with the OP

Thanks, apparently I'm the one hounding everyone else for their personality

Really sorry, but yes, that's what it looks like (to me, one of the same old bores.....)

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