Skip the ticket!

So, yeah, I'm a bit of a speed demon. Sometimes that isn't on purpose....sometimes....maybe, my car and I want to stretch it out a bit. Despite the absolute exhilaration I feel at fast speeds, there is a little prude in the back of my mind and eyeballs that is constantly watching for cops. I hate tickets, don't you? One of the worst parts is the way they have the ability to make you feel like a child being reprimanded. The money is a big pain in the butt too. You can imagine, when I found this article, I was thrilled. I thought about you immediately as well.

By Glenn Ruppel reported on Yahoo.com

Every driver hates getting a ticket. So when you are pulled over, how do you minimize the damage to your wallet?

First, realize the risk of serious danger to the officer is quite real.

"Cops get killed on car stops," said Jerry Kane, 53, a retired New York Police Department officer. Kane said if you're pulled over, you should realize the officer will be on high alert.

Watch the full story - including more dramatic secrets from cops and other professions - on "20/20: True Confessions" Friday at 10 p.m. ET

"The most dangerous thing to the cop when he comes up to the car are the hands of someone, because they could hold a weapon," he said.

Drivers and passengers have been known to come out shooting, a fact cops are well aware of as they walk up to your vehicle.

"If he can see everybody's hands, immediately his blood pressure goes down, his pulse gets a bit slower," Kane said. "If it's nighttime, turn on the interior lights in your car. If it's night or day, lower all the windows on your car. … And put your hands up on the steering wheel - high, where the cop can see them."

This may make the officer more understanding and lenient, Kane said.

"If you were gonna get some discretion, you now set up that possibility."

The officer may then ask if you know what you did wrong. Kane said to be apologetic, but don't feel you have to admit anything.

"You can play dumb. You can say, 'What did I do?' And if he tells you what you did, you could say, 'I must have…you know, I just didn't realize it,'" Kane said.

Does it work to cry?

"Only for women," Kane said, laughing.

What if she shows a little leg?

"Since men and women were created, attractive women get more breaks," Kane said.

Finally, do as Kane does: keep your speed less than 10 miles per hour over the limit.

"If you were my brother or my cousin and asked me, that's what I would tell you."

Watch the full story - including more dramatic secrets from cops and other professions - on "20/20: True Confessions" Friday at 10 p.m. ET

Hey it can't hurt, right? Minus the showing your leg...ummm, eternal damnation! If you believe in that kind of stuff. hahaha

This has been a service announcement from Speeders Annonymous.

2012 Beats Racism

Hallelujah, Obama Won!!! Thank you God, thank you America.

Racism has been beat.
Ignorance did not convince the right people.
History will be documented in the right way.
Our nation, has a chance now.
I'm so happy, thank you EVERY woman that voted, Thank you every ethnicity that voted. White people, the ones that voted due to color...haha IN YOUR FACE...this is the 21st Century...Racism is DEAD, die with it!!!!

Texting Manners

Admittedly, I came late to the world of texting. About four  years ago, I had no clue what that term barely meant. I heard it being used all over the place. Upon first hearing it, I thought it was some kind of option with a very fancy, expensive phone that involved code. haha....No, really!

I don't remember how it happened, I just began. It might have been with the first time I got a phone that was worth more than a piece of gum. Maybe it was when I finally gave up on the idea of a landline. Whatever the event, I can't stop now.

I love texting but there are some disclaimers to that. In the beginning, I refused to give up on complete sentences. I was determined not to fall into that lazy generation that forgets how to spell the world laugh, using lol instead. Is it just me or is everyone "laughing out loud", so often, a bit far fetched?? I used actual punctuation marks. You know those funny little dots that look ink stained? I kept that up for a good year, I suppose, mocking those that btw'd and lol'd entirely too much and then...it happened....I gave in...I sold out!

That said, I still believe there is a texting etiquette to be followed to some extent. I'm beginning to think , I am the only one of this mind though. Texting is a shortcut to a conversation. It is what we have, throughout the day when we can't take the time out to have the hour(s) long talks we used to. Concentrate on my nouns here: Conversation and talks. In a real live conversation, there is a beginning and clear end. With texting, shouldn't that be the same, at the very least?

Here is how my text conversations go: We start with a traditional, hello, hi, how are you, etc. Then there is random info/questions, out of order and lacking in adjectives often. I'm good with the middle parts. However the end, is often left behind. The "conversation" just ends without closure. My only identifier to this is the time that passes by with no reply.

I'm sorry, how hard is a "i've got to go" or "sorry, busy" or "cya, later" and the list could go on and on of simple typing phrases that would surely not strain even the busiest or most metropolitan of texters.

Am I being silly to want to know that a shared string of consciousness has come to an end? Is it really so unreasonable to just say bye? Personally,I don't think so but, I do recognize that I might very well be a dying breed of people that remember the importance of manners, no matter the medium.