Narrative Essay About Speeding

Two months after I get my driver’s license, I get my very first speeding ticket. What a great way to start out driving, right? Well my parents didn’t think so. So, I’m driving home from school on this I guess you could call it a “hilly” road where the bumps are fun to ride over when speeding. It was all fun and games until I spot the cop parked at the end of the street just watching me. There was no use in slowing down. I knew he’d already clocked me at 50 in a 25. There wasn’t anyone on the road besides me, but in the passenger seat sat my best friend. I was also driving through a neighborhood. I put a lot of people in danger. I know the whole situation could have been retained if I had followed the law.
According to the book, the method I chose was retention. The book says that there are two types of retention called active and passive. Sadly, both were included in my decision making that day. I consider it active because I was fully aware I was breaking the law but I was going to do it anyways. I knew I was bound to get pulled over sooner or later, it was just sooner than I thought. I consider it
Maybe I could take another route or do the smart thing and go the speed limit. The first time I retained the risk by choosing to break the law. If I had controlled the risk, maybe I wouldn’t have gotten the ticket. I could have even saved my $75. I probably would have bought a radar detector with it, just to be on the safe side. I wouldn’t have gotten my car taken away, even though that lasted for all around 15 minutes. I had to be at college the same day. In conclusion, I would do things differently if I had the chance. There was no way I could have avoided the risk. But I would control the risk instead of retaining it. There are many ways I could have controlled the risk, but just chose not to. I was just being a spoiled brat that day and it bit me in the