Defensive Driving! Woot!

March 4, 2005 by Dan
Filed under: General 

I just got done with a defensive driving course that my rent a cop job required me to go through. Now I’m not the best driver but I feel I am pretty safe so I didn’t think I was going to get much out of it, but I actually learned the following:

  • You’re aren’t supposed to drive if you are tired. Our instructor even went on to say that if we woke up exhausted we should call in and let them know we wouldn’t be able to work. (The supervisor loved that idea)
  • I was disapointed to find out according to the personal survey that I am an aggressive driver, I always thought of my driving as being assertive - which atleast in my social work classes is a good thing.
  • One interesting fact that I seriously didn’t know was officers can not make you perform a field sobriety test that they themselves can’t pass. I guess I won’t be saying the alphabet backwards anytime soon!

    • I really shouldn’t complain since I got paid to sit there and I may be able to get lower insurance premiums since I took the class but it just seemed to much like common sense for me. Although it was fun driving home, I realized that I could be the perfect example of not what to do… oh well.

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