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General => General discussion => Topic started by: scarr89 on 05 August 2011, 22:48
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Tomorrow I'm heading into sunny Wolverhampton to attend a speed awareness course. They gave me the option of this or the 3 points, jumped at the chance! Still raging about the whole speeding fine...the bastard was sat on the exit to a blind bend on a duel carriageway for god sake!
Anyone else been on one these, what am I to expect?
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played this game last september, i was expecting to get told off for 4 hours or how ever long it was. turned out that everybody was there for the same reason and you and myself (avoiding the points). theres a couple of school type group activities, other than that it was just common sense seminars and a few giggles really, with free tea and biscuits :cool:
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Tick Box.
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Its boring and 3 hours long. A bit like watching Lord of the Rings but without the homosexual tension.
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Its boring and 3 hours long. A bit like watching Lord of the Rings but without the homosexual tension.
So the "homosexual tension" was exciting for you then?
:grin:
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Its boring and 3 hours long. A bit like watching Lord of the Rings but without the homosexual tension.
So the "homosexual tension" was exciting for you then?
:grin:
I should have clarified; that was on screen, not off screen...
Otherwise I might not have been quite so bored
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A Freudian slip, also called parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of some unconscious ("dynamically repressed") wish, conflict, or train of thought .......mmmmmm... :grin: :grin:
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Dare I say I learnt nothing from that 4 hour long course. I choose to speed, foolishly. It wasn't like my foot slipped on the gas and then I continued doing 74 in a 60!
It was informative to older drivers (I'm 22) who may need to brush up on their high way code etc. Was shocking how many people didn't know what some signs mean!!
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Tomorrow I'm heading into sunny Wolverhampton to attend a speed awareness course. They gave me the option of this or the 3 points, jumped at the chance! Still raging about the whole speeding fine...the fatherless son was sat on the exit to a blind bend on a duel carriageway for god sake!
Anyone else been on one these, what am I to expect?
And this probably had nothing to do with you not paying enough attention to your driving then? :rolleyes: :laugh: (Sorry I get these excuses every damn day and it's usually because you're looking for someone else to blame but yourself).
The course itself is dull (I went as a mystery shopper) but if you pay attention you do learn a few things. And it is frightening how little other people know of the Highway Code. There's always stuff you think you know and you find out it's totally wrong! :laugh:
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Sorry I get these excuses every damn day and it's usually because you're looking for someone else to blame but yourself
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Are you in the Police force or something to do with road safety? I obviously would like someone else to blame, but in the end I definitely knew I was speeding. I have no doubt I will still speed on certain roads. (Not around schools/residential areas etc) The thing that gets me is the vans choosing of location and time! I would be able to understand if I had been doing 45 past a school at 3 in the afternoon, but 74 in 60 on a huge open road in the middle of the day on a Sunday. IMO it is another way of funding for the gvt/police.
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Look at my sig... :wink:
Can't vouch for what the force in your area does but if there's no signs up or signs missing then our lot don't enforce. And if they're parked "Round a bend" then they won't be able to accurately target you in time as the laser needs to fire in a straight line and also have you in shot far enough away to recognise the VRM of the vehicle.
Ask yourself this - do you speed to get there quicker? If so, time it next time out and see how much time you actually make up. Probably not a lot. And if it's the thrill of speeding you love, do a track day instead. No speed limits and you can genuinely test yourself on a circuit with little no likelihood of getting a fine. Most people (myself included) think they are far better drivers than they actually are. Get out on the track and prove how good you are is my advice - get your adrenaline rush in a great environment :cool:
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Just checked you out! The whole saving time while speeding etc was the part of the course that made me think about it not doing it again, as the course speaker said, saving 5min tops on most journeys.
I guess it is just the thrill that makes me want to drive fast! I have been on a couple of the super car experiences, guess I'll have to purchase a couple more as I doubt I'll be taking my 150pd to a track day any time soon!!