The Moral Highground...

This will not be a posting about weight loss (though I was just complimented by the finance lady on how shapely my figure is looking!), but will instead focus on the speeding ticket i got this morning on the way to taking my niece to school/coming to an 8am meeting...

I was going 80 on the freeway - must take advantage when there isn't bumper to bumper traffic to at least shave some precious time off of the long commute! and there was a CHP man, who i will refer to going forward as "the man", on the side of the road, outside of his car, with the radar gun pointing at me. I quickly slowed down, which just gave "the man" the time he needed to get in his car, and pull me over. my first thought was - Standing on the side of the road with a radar gun could not have been what drove you to choose policing as your career... perhaps there is a drunk driver or child molester somewhere you should be patrolling, and not the innocent, childless auntie, driving her tween-age niece to school while lecturing her on how she needs to do better in math and science (if only other child-less aunties were so involved in their niece's lives!). But alas, these were all internal thoughts as I only politely said "yes - speeding - 80 - ok (when he said it was actually 81)- thank you" through out the exchange.

As we continued the rest of our journey onward to Mitty Highschool, i pondered all of the reasons that i felt i should not be ticketed, and realized that it all summed up to "I'm a good person, who tries to help others, pays my taxes, doesn't use many of the govt. services, has health insurance, and car insurance, doesn't partake in litigious claims, donates each year to charity, volunteers..." but apparently, my moral high ground does not count with "the man"... and when said out loud, becomes a silly argument as to why i should not have any civic duties....

I will try to remember this the next time i get my bi-annual jury duty summons, and immediately think -Why do i have to go to jury duty? my peers do not break the law, thus how can i be on someones "jury of their peers"... ;-)

Oh Friday - so much self-awareness this morning... now back to losing weight...