Confessions of a Total World Dominator

Okay kids, it's story time! I got my first speeding ticket yesterday. Not a happy thing. I was just out driving around, minding my own business when the flippy flashy lights started to blind me from behind. I uttered a choice word and pulled over. Now let's pause for a moment to review the previous times Tracy has been pulled over by the flippy flashy lights....picture it Wooster St. 1997...a young girl driving home after a horrendously long day of drive thru madness at one of the three local Burger Kings. She can still hear the unmerciful bing in her ear as car after car comes thru to order the incomparable delacacies that only true burger royalty can offer. She's exhausted, aching, a trifle insane, but she runs one last errand before driving home. She has to fill up the gas tank. It's about eight thirty, and dark, and she feeds the car, and pulls back out onto Wooster street to begin her triumphant drive homeward. She gets less than a quarter of a mile down the street when she sees the flippy flashy lights. In a panic she pulls to the right and stops, hoping that they weren't meant for her. When she sees that they are, she immediately bursts into tears and starts to hyperventilate. The officer walks over to the weeping girl. He explains that her lights weren't on, and he just wanted to make sure she wasn't drunk. He is immediately concerned about the hysterical girl in the driver's seat who is apologizing profusely. He asks for her license and registration, she opens the glove compartment, really not sure where the registration is since she's never had to get it out before. She proceeds to hand him the entire contents of the glove compartment including a red velvet hair scrunchy that hung by a single strand of her reddish brown hair. The officer smiles and retreives the registration explaining that it's all he needs and hands the remaining contents back to the distraught maiden. He leaves her to retreat back to his car, the girl, still quite out of sorts waits for her doom. Will she go to jail? Will she be handcuffed? Beaten? Executed? As the panic rises in the girl's heart, the officer returns and hands everything back. He's only going to give her a warning, he sees that this is a first time occurence, and she's obviously upset enough. He tells her to calm down and drive home, get some rest he says and then walks away shaking his head....true story....how pathetic am I? : ) I will spare you the other story, because I don't feel like writing it out!
So anyway the officer came over to me last night, I greeted him with a shy smile and he nodded his head back. He explained to me that I was going 49 in a 30, my first instinct was to disagree with him, but I didn't think that Tim would want to pick me up at the justice center, so I said "Okay, I guess I missed the sign, it looked like at least a 45 zone to me." I explained that I was new here, and not familiar with the strange speed limits, this didn't impress him and he took my stuff back to his car and wrote me up a ticket for $120!!!!! What, was I weaving in and out of cars too? I mean come on! $120 is a ton of money! This is Kansas, not California! But I took it with a smile and a thank you, because he had done me a favor by shaving two miles off the speed limit so I wouldn't have to pay $150 instead, and I went on my merry way. Sydney thinks I should go to court, it is my first ticket, and my driving record has been completely clean for almost four years now. I have to think about it for a week or so, I'm still rather emotional about it! If I had been knowingly speeding I would have thought it completely justified, but the last sign I had seen was for 50mph since I was just coming off a country road. Damn Nazis! People were passing me right before he pulled me over, why didn't he get them! Did I have a neon sign over my car that said "Pick me! Ooh pick me!!!
So yeah, that's my most recent adventure in the land of Kansas. I just got my Kansas license two days ago, I'm now an official resident. It's really scary! Who would have ever thought I would end up here, and actually like it for the most part?