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18 Months of Driving Like a Weenie

Instead of commiserating with me over my recent traffic mishap, Alan Kellogg [who has been picking on me lately ] suggests that I try "spraypainting SUVs with snarky remarks as you wait behind one, instead of trying to illegally pass the gasoline powered yurt." (No thanks. I like private property even more than I hate SUVs. As Russell Kirk observed, "freedom and property are closely linked: separate property from private possession, and Leviathan becomes master of all.") He also asks whether "there's a limit to how many times you can take TS before it's mandatory payments and (possible) stays in the Scofflaw Hilton?" Nope. One of many great things about California is that you can take traffic school as many times as you want (it turns out that I am eligible, so I'll be going for the third time since I moved here in 96). The hitch is that you are only eligible for traffic school every 18 months. So I'll be doing traffic school (probably on the internet) and then driving like a wuss for the next year and a half.