Of Luck and Traffic tickets

Ever wonder how lucky you are? I think I may have figured out to a way to tell how much. How is it that you have come upon this charm to measure a person’s luck, you ask. Elementary, my dear!

Luck of a person for a given year is inversely proportional to the number of traffic tickets one has collected in the same year.

You see, just a few days ago, I was driving down relatively harmlessly, following a car in front of me at nominal speed when I was pulled over for speeding. I was very surprised, as even though I was a little over I was not truly speeding, also by the same element the car in front of me is guilty of the same infraction.
Now very cautiously as I proceeded on, very mindful of my experience a few minutes ago, this car just zips by me. I wait for a few minutes; patiently waiting for the blue-red lights to give him a deserving chase. Hmm…., nothing happens, absolutely nothing! Why is he so lucky I said when it suddenly struck me? I have on many occasions enjoyed the reversal of this fortune, with a silly unlucky passer-by, wondering why I was having a good day.

So I am not looking at the Speedo-meter, every second I drive, for that matter I am not very cognizant of the environment and the speeds associated with that area. Given this fact I have rendered my probability to speed, relatively high. I can safely say most of who drive do speed or break the traffic laws (stop signs, tail gaiting, forgetting blinkers, seatbelts, etc) in one way or the other.

Getting caught then is like picking up a chance card in monopoly reading, you are fined for traffic violation. Tickets are pure chance, and since they are attributed to such bad fortune, this becomes measure of luck or in this case bad luck.

So if you get a ticket, in and around that week, don’t buy a lotto ticket.

_/not_driving.