So back in July, I got a speeding ticket. It’s not a huge surprise given my driving skills. To say the least, I drive like a crazy woman, which I am so it’s quite suiting. Anyways, the court gives you 90 days, so three months, to complete defensive driving. I, of course, wait until the last two weeks to do it. And obtain a copy of my driving record from DPS.
Finally I started my online defensive driving course today. I could have gone to sit in on a class, taught by a “comedian” for six hours or do the course in the comfort of my own home in my pj’s. If you have never done a defensive driving course, you are lucky because they suck. By Texas law, each course has to be six hours in length. For an online course, everything is timed. So each page or lesson has a minimum time requirement. Even if I finish reading the information early, I can’t go onto the next page until the clock runs out. Of course, the together time of all the components is equal to six hours. That does not include the extra time added for uploading pages, forgetting to press next because you couldn’t press it before, and other things. So in the end, the course, for me, or any person really taking it online, is greater than six hours.
The real point to all this is that I just don’t understand defensive driving. It’s not that I’m stupid or anything like that. It’s that the program and all the information is so mind numbing and BORING!! All the information is pretty basic and common knowledge stuff that people should know like who has the right-of-way and the major causes of accidents. In addition to the dullness that it is, the pictures are from the 90′s. They don’t have dates, but you know how when you see an old movie, like 15 years old, and picture looks different and you just know it old, that’s how they look. Oh and the videos!! They are the worst. The narrator always has the most monotone voice that just makes me want to fall asleep. I would have paid my ticket in full instead of doing defensive driving but I didn’t want it on my driving record. Now, as I’m going through the course, I’m painfully regretting my decision.
Then again, I am writing this blog as I’m “suppose” to be watching one of the stupid videos on driving in inclement weather. So maybe it’s not too bad…
