Tickets and fines in your lifetime. Take a guess.

My lifetime, have had one running a red-light ticket, although it was
amber all the way through the intersection. Paid the fine, did not go
to court. This was back in 1985. Ticket was $25.

Parking ticket for failing to put my mom's handicap sticker in the window,
where I was parked. Was fined $500, did go to court, reduced to $250.
That was back in 1995.

Meter parking meter tickets in Seattle, WA. total of 5 for running over the allotted
time. Paid the fines. Small fines at that time. That was back in 1991.

Driving too slowly, and impeding traffic (got a verbal warning twice) no tickets.
It was early morning, on a nice quieter country road/highway. I was enjoying
the views. That was in 2020.

That's it for Emeraude :)
 
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I was caught driving without a license at age 18, couldn't officially get a license for
4 years.
Then 10 years later on the interstate here in Missouri I was following my
DH who was hauling my scared horse to our new home and he was jittery, I had to pass
a guy who pulled in front of me and got a ticket for speeding while passing. I had to stay
close in case Dusty lost it so I could calm him. I was in car with my kids.
Another 10 years later I got a speeding ticket for going 30mph in a 25mph zone because
I was rushing to (giggle) get my license renewed during my 30 minute lunch break.
 

In over 50 years of driving, I've gotten one ticket for no proof of insurance. A few days later I went to a police station and showed my insurance card and an officer signed off the ticket. That was back in the 70s.

And I was pulled over for 5mph over the posted limit, but the officer just gave me a warning. That was in the 80s.
 
I got a lot of tickets when young. I always went to court. In those years, if the officer who issued the ticket failed to appear, it was automatically dismissed. It doesn't work that way anymore. Nowadays they reschedule the case for another day and the officer will most likely appear - but that's okay since it's probably been 30 years since I've had any more tickets.
 
One camera ticket for speeding. Later all tickets were cancelled in that zone. The signage was considered deceptive. Too late for me. $26.

Two parking meter tickets. One I ran in the store, set something down and ran right back. The bylaw officer obviously ran faster than I. Lesson learned - double check if they’re in the vicinity.
 
Coming home from Ft Benning for a short leave before shipping out to Nam, I managed to get a speeding ticket in every state from Georgia to Vermont. excluding only Connecticut. Figured I probably wasn't coming home so... who cared. Came back to haunt me when I did get home. :)
That wasn't the first time, but, I'd need an entire page to list all the bad I have done and got ticketed.
 
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I think one when I wore no helmet on a moped in my 20s. Once I went to Belgium with my brother on a bicycle and a moped and my BIL's tie so one could pull the other. Belgian police stopped us. They were so sweet. We didn't even get a fine, but one said: I think that's dangerous.
 
Whelllll —— I still have trouble “driving 55”. Last year I was picked up twice in two months on the 4-lane driving 70 & 68. The troopers let me go both times.

I don’t fancy paying for driving school, so now I set my cruise control 🤯💩🤯💩
 
I've not gotten fines, tickets or anything like that. I haven't ever been stopped by a cop. I haven't caused any accidents, and only been in one.

I figure I'm lucky in that regard. I love driving fast on curving roads and hairpin curves and on the interstate in the WV mountains. I love driving fast, period. I only do it when it's safe. In WV, only in extra light traffic -- those mountain roads can be steep and curvy.

One time, I was talking to a forest ranger I knew and he told me to drive extra slowly around the hairpin that was on my route in the mountains. I agreed. When I got to the curve, I realized I'd been on it before at pretty high speeds, and lo and behold, it never registered with me that it was a hairpin curve.
 
I wish I could say I never had any tickets but, alas, I cannot do that with a straight face.

I remember my first ticket, which was sooo bogus. I lived just outside Detroit and coming down Woodward, you had to pass over an overpass over Eight Mile Road (yes, THAT Eight Mile Road) into Detroit. The Detroit cops sat on the Detroit side of the overpass and nabbed as many people as they could without shutting the transportation system down completely.

I was approaching the intersection just as the light turned yellow with a huge garbage truck about, I swear, six inches off my back bumper. I went through the intersection (light was STILL yellow) and immediately got pulled over. I asked the cop why he didn't also pull over the garbage truck because it was BEHIND me and he told me that wasn't my concern. This intersection was their biggest money-maker.

Detroit had a sure-fire way to make sure you didn't fight your ticket because if you showed up for court and the cop who wrote you the ticket didn't show up, you were off free. So to make sure you didn't come down to fight your ticket, you got a court date but not a time. You had to show up at 8 a.m. and if you were unlucky, you'd sit there until 5 waiting your turn. And that was only to plead either guilty or not-guilty. If you pled not-guilty, you got ANOTHER court date, same routine, same possibility of sitting there all day. So you could miss two days of work and STILL get charged and fined.

Thus, most people just grumbled and paid the ticket. That's what I did because I would have faced a fate worse than death if I missed that much work.

I've only had one speeding ticket, though I'll have to admit that I've deserved many more (I am a lead-foot). Parking tickets, yeah, I've had only two, one of which was because I put the money in the wrong meter.

Two "improper lane change" tickets, one because of equipment failure but technically I deserved it. The other was a "trap" on a street that was poorly designed and you had to use the wrong lane unless you wanted to sit through 3-5 lights trying to get through. Absolutely everyone did it every morning but one morning the cops were sitting around the corner in a parking lot waving everybody into the parking lot. I was the 12th one pulled over in that moment.

I've gone to "traffic school" twice to get the points taken off my record. Still had to pay the fine, though. One of them was a "comedy traffic school" and the instructor was really funny.

It's been 20 years since my last ticket.
 

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