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  • Feb. 28th, 2008 at 10:40 AM
tim, Sad Katie, ysolde, sporebat, Bleachy Katie, willy, kaitling, Eggbert, wolpertinger, More Katie, thaisa, hippogryph, snowman

My apologies for missing yesterday's HDQ. I spent the day hobbling around the house alternately clutching a cane, or a crutch, as my mood demanded. It seems that one of my knees took exception to a session on the bike o' pain (aka the exercise bike), and I went all wonky on me. I told it to shape up or ship out, got out the hobbling assists, and took some ibuprofen.

This morning I woke to find my knee much happier, but the muscles that run along the back of the leg, behind the knee and to regions beyond, were evidently jealous at all the attention being focused on the front of the knee, and they steadfastly refused to allow my knee to bend without pain.

I had a little chat with THOSE muscles, as well, and now although they're pouting and insisting on feeling irritated, they are at least allowing my knee to bend without pain.  

I will admit to glaring at my innocent knee, and muttering dire threats should it decide to make a fuss, but thus far it has maintained an attitude of servile docility. It had better, that's all I'm saying.

So! HDQ a day late (again). Let's try: have you ever had a driving ticket? And was it deserved? This question is courtesy of Mr. Katie, who was driving less wise than he should have yesterday. Ahem.

Comments

[info]damedini wrote:
Feb. 28th, 2008 06:46 pm (UTC)
Oh heck yeah! And richly deserved if by that you mean was I speeding.
[info]earthgoat wrote:
Feb. 28th, 2008 07:00 pm (UTC)
Back in my salad days, I had a habit of driving fast and a truck with a large engine. I also lived in the middle of BFE where the county roads were basically highways and veins to civilization and everyone drove over the limit.

One late dark night, driving the 30 mile commute home from high school, I was happily speeding along when the car that had just passed me going the opposite direction pulled a Dukes of Hazzard turn around and those lovely blue and red lights atop it started spinning.

77 in a 55 zone. I was lucky and the policeman wrote it for 65 in a 55. Ah well, we were all young and dumb once.
[info]riviera wrote:
Feb. 28th, 2008 07:18 pm (UTC)
I'm actually extremely surprised I've never gotten one. Until I turned about 19 and realized the new meaning of personal accountability and responsibility (those terrible and fearsome words), I was a terrible speeder. Now I'm usually too interested in my surroundings or whatever song I'm belting out to speed. Luck luck luck.
[info]matrixflight wrote:
Feb. 28th, 2008 07:24 pm (UTC)
I must admit, I mutter and curse at my knee/shins/feet when they hurt too. When I'm running. I'll be running along, they start to hurt, so I say, "hey. f*ck you!"

I've only been driving for about 4 years. I scraped a parked car a couple months after getting my license. I was trying to park and the parking lot I was in SUCKS and I was driving a minivan. I was pulled over about a year after I got my license. But I got off with a warning :)
[info]angieelz wrote:
Feb. 28th, 2008 07:31 pm (UTC)
I, fortunately, have not had a ticket since 1995, which was the only one I have ever received in the 16 years I have been driving.

While I was speeding, I think the only reason that I received the ticket then (since I had a clean record) was due to me sporting green hair in a more conservative portion of the country. I've always attributed it to me not being "normal" and more "deserving" of the ticket due to that fact than my speeding.

I have been stopped with a warning since then, but no tickets.
[info]yoliesraft wrote:
Feb. 28th, 2008 09:16 pm (UTC)
I have gotten a ticket and while I was speeding I firmly lay the blame on my mother. I had just found out that my mother had gotten credit cards in my name without my permission or knowledge and I was pissed.
[info]erifica wrote:
Feb. 28th, 2008 09:32 pm (UTC)
I've never gotten a driving ticket. I didn't get a driver's license until I was 22 either.
[info]kassilei wrote:
Feb. 28th, 2008 11:53 pm (UTC)
Argh I got my first speeding ticket ever about a month after I moved to Tucson (which didn't help my opinion of the town and it hasn't improved since). The road was riddled with construction and the speed limit kept changing from 45 to 35 to 25. Literally bouncing up and down for about three miles. I got a 37 in a 25. I suppose I "deserved" it because I was speeding, however I'm still irritated by the fact that it was nearly impossible to know what the speed limit was at any given time.

The Dept of Trans. in Tucson does goofy things with construction constantly.
[info]ensignpavel wrote:
Feb. 29th, 2008 01:16 am (UTC)
I'm in Tucson too! I never know what the speed is supposed to be in those zones. They sometimes don't even have signs.
[info]sandyleeann wrote:
Feb. 29th, 2008 12:21 am (UTC)
Nope, never had a ticket. Because for some reason when you plow right into cars? No ticket. I am grateful but mystified.
[info]ensignpavel wrote:
Feb. 29th, 2008 01:14 am (UTC)
Yep, speeding. I was caught in a major sweep of the freeway. They got everyone all at once (about 20 cars) so I couldn't use that "flow of traffic" excuse. But we were all speeding, so I deserved it.
[info]mercadia_kenobi wrote:
Feb. 29th, 2008 03:46 am (UTC)
Yup...55 in a 35...deserved it...ugh
[info]delerium23 wrote:
Feb. 29th, 2008 04:37 am (UTC)
The last ticket I received was in college. I rolled a stop sign. I appolgized and explained, I was coming back from the doctor, I had strep throat with a 102 degree tempreture, I had the receit in the seat beside me, I just wanted to get back to the dorm room and crawl into bed. He still gave me a ticket, but I had the satisfaction of using his pen. I am sure I was very contagious.
[info]crimson_lantern wrote:
Feb. 29th, 2008 04:48 am (UTC)
Auuu *hugs you* I so know what knee pain is like, I messed mine up in high school with soccer and then a lovely trip down the stairs of which I missed the last three and went over the side. No, I'm not clumsy at all.

Anyway, in answer to your question. Nope, never had a ticket. I almost had a fix it ticket a couple of weeks ago due to dead tail lights. But the cop that pulled me over was very nice, even as we both got soaked by a rude semi (who didn't get over) and let me go.
[info]iniadelphinae wrote:
Feb. 29th, 2008 12:21 pm (UTC)
I've had one speeding ticket, and deservedly so. I was going 70 in a 55 zone. Didn't even try to get out of it, though I probably could have since I was 8 months pregnant at the time and big enough that I looked like I could have been having labor pains.
[info]decadentplastic wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2008 12:04 am (UTC)
I've gotten a few that I earned for speeding and one once when my headlight decided to die on the way home from the grocery store, but in my home town it's easy to get pulled over just for having girlie bits.

Like... one time, my friend went to pick her husband up after a bachelor's party at 2AM one Friday night/Saturday morning and was pulled over. The cop made her take a sobriety test because the "only reason a woman travels alone that late is because she's drunk" and threatened to give her a DUI even after she passed. Since moving away from rural hell, though, I have to say I've met nice cops that really just want to give me a ticket instead of a tour of their backseat. :)


And I totally sympathize on the knee thing - shredded the meniscus in both of my knees my senior year of high school. Despite surgery, they still give me a heck of a time.
[info]audaer wrote:
Mar. 2nd, 2008 04:53 pm (UTC)
OK, a couple days late & a dollar short, but "yes" to the speeding ticket. About 15 years ago for blowing by a Statie on the Mass Pike at 90 mph. I had no excuse--my car was an old Plymouth Sundance that would shimmy when it went past 65 mph.