LookieNoNookie
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There has to be more to this story.
Sorry, but no. I was exceeding the posted speed limit, as I have been known to do on wide open roads, a time or five hundred in my life, and couldn't talk my way out of this one. The officer was kind enough to knock 15 mph off what the radar said, when he wrote it, but he wrote me one all the same. I paid it online. My last ticket was for an illegal turn, about 6 years ago, but I was running on a Class-A license then, and wasn't eligible for this option.
I'm not an expert, but California seems to have two tiers of traffic school. There is a 12-hour course that people get ordered to take, and the 8-hour voluntary one I did. I paid the court an extra fee, paid the school their fee, and when my certificate of completion is delivered to the court, the simple infraction and single point on my license won't be sent to my insurance company. It's a scam, as I said, but it will save me money in the long run.
The only "rest of the story" is that I grabbed a cold beverage to sit down with, gave myself a grin with the visual of somebody doing online traffic school from a mobile device while driving, and decided to share. Judging from the poll results, a few people found it funny. 
I'll tell you what's funny about California testing.....
About 10 years ago I was studying for my California contractors license. At the time, we did work in 27 states, all but California allowed "reciprocal" licenses (we're in Washington State). If you had one in "this" state" and "that" state allowed reciprocal licensing, they'd give you one in theirs. California, you had to take a special class for it.
The book was massively thick so I figured I better take this seriously.
I closed my office door for a week, no calls, studied like a banshee, then 2 days prior I holed up in a hotel a block away from the testing facility and buried my nose.
Came in to take the test, 2 hour test, all on computers, multiple choice....here was one of the questions (few were more difficult than this):
"You are using an electric saw outside. There's a tear in the plastic covering on the cord and you can see there are bare wires exposed and the electric cord is sitting in a puddle. It starts to rain.
Do you:
A) Continue using the saw and remain outdoors?
B) Stop using the saw and immediately go indoors until the rain has stopped?
C) Talk to your supervisor about the next best course of action?"
Of course, nowhere did it say:
D) Get a new fucking cord you imbecile, or get the current one repaired, don't EVER let it sit in a fucking puddle while in operation and don't use electrical equipment of any kind, in good repair or not, outdoors, in the rain.
I was done in 20 minutes.....63 questions.
I got up....first guy out the door, I look back and see all these people sweating bullets and think "Oh....I surely fucked up.....look at all these people still taking the test....fuck".
As I'm leaving, I get handed a paper test that I'm to take and then mail it back to the State of California. Maybe 15 simple questions.
I answer them all, it's one of those folding, no stamp "mail anywhere" thingies....and I suddenly see that on the very last page are ALL the answers for this little paper test.
I take it back in and hand it to the lady and say..."uhhh.....you are aware that this test I just took has all the answers on the back page?", she then said "yes Sir, it's a self correcting test...perhaps you missed the section where it says on the very first page that you are to take the test, see which ones you got right and then send us the results".
The next guy to come out of the computer test came out an hour later. He looked worried, asked me how I thought I did and suddenly realized.....I probably passed.
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