Peter Sellers was one of the funniest people in movie land. I saw all of his movies and laughed myself to tears doing so. His French accent capped off his use of English like no other could.
“It is the lieu!” (It is the law) was one of his best lines
for me, and every time he said it I laughed.
Recently I was driving home from Connecticut and as I
entered New York State at a clip of 75mph in a 50 mph zone I saw the highway
patrol too late. He jumped out from the side of the road and gave chase as I
looked to pull over.
As my grandmother, Francesca would have said: “JOE-JOE, you
Humbly and believe it or not, gratefully, I accept the
ticket and acknowledge that I deserve it. I wasn’t paying attention and I put
not only my life in danger, but, those of my fellow passenger, drivers and the
policeman that chased me by my carelessness.
What has happened is I am now paying better attention to
speed limits. I usually did before the ticket but now even more so. Stop signs
I always obeyed, even in the dead of night on an abandoned road with no one
watching.
In the long run, the ticket may have saved my life, or that
of someone else’s by reminding me I need to slow down.
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