Traffic fine

So I got pulled over for talking on the celphone while driving. The putrid tick in uniform addressed me as follows: "Are we going to right each other?" Translation: Are you going to see me right with a bribe and I can then see you right by not writing the ticket? My indignation level rose faster than an Apollo rocket but I did remain polite and told him to do his job and write the ticket while giving him a viciously contemptuous look and a sneer on my face that would peel a pineapple at forty paces. In the end he wrote the ticket. I had put him on the spot and there was nothing else he could do.




Afterwards I complicated the incident by forgetting to pay the fine and a warrant was issued for my arrest. In the end I (or rather Wonfy who went to the traffic dept. for me) had to pay the R500 fine plus R300 contempt of court.




Do I now avoid answering the celphone while driving? Noooo. Do I have greater respect for our traffic enforcers. Nooo. Put it this way, my hatred level for them has gone up 800 notches ( 1 notch per R1) and my dearest wish is that they and their bosses would never come out from under the dog's vomit which is their natural habitat.




Next time I will pay the bribe. It will be less stressful and I will save R600. The tick will be happy and I can always hope what he spends it on will kill him.




That is now the South African way. Puke.