The answer to one of Karl's questions shocked me a bit. 3 speeding tickets Karl? really? WOW.
I bet no one in the family can guess how many speeding tickets i have had and for what amounts over the limit. I'd be willing to put some money on this one. I'll give you a little hint. i have never had a speeding ticket out here in Utah.
-ryan
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I would say only one ticket for speeding and that would be the infamous 106 in a 55 mph zone when you were 16. I know that you had gotten a ticket prior to that but it was for failing to stop or something to that effect. I think you've kept it pretty clean since then and for good reason.
xo!
-M
yeah I might have to go with marjorie on this one judging by the reaction you had to my 3 tickets. I like to speed... what can I say... but I have slowed it down. I've become more patient in my old age. but to be different I'm going to say you've had two tickets. the 106 in a 55 and one for... um... 10 over. I don't know.
-karl
Never gotten a ticket in Utah huh? That is pretty impressive. I have to say that you have gotten 2 speeding tickets as well. I thought there was a story about you on Monroe (or Mercer? or some Decatur street) with some girl in the car going 50 in a 30. I might be making that up. And who can forget the 106 in a 55 :) Notorious teenage Ryan stuff!!!
Now that you are family man, can you believe you ever did some of those crazy silly things! Ah what fun we all had in our youth :) (I'll be 28 in a few weeks, I'm feeling pretty old!)
It's a miracle you haven't been ticketed in Utah
i just need to add that last one was from my loving wife.
i'm going to wait for mom and/or dad (are they the same person?) to reveal the answer.
my non speeding tickets include
-following too closely
-unsafe start
-turning left in a no turn left zone (i don't remember the exact wording, but thats what it was)
-the occasional seat belt violation. after the last one i vowed to never be in a car again without a belt on. safety 1st!
i may have gotten a "driving too fast for conditions" ticket after the first crash-mobile accident. i remember how distraught marjorie was.
ryan
Wow, Ryan, that is a lot of other tickets, not for speeding. I remember there being a few tickets, but I think there was only one for speeding. I remember accompanying you to the Huntington Courthouse, and I remember feeling (somewhat) responsible since you got that ticket bringing home some hysterical female from Girl's Camp (over which I was the Stake Camp Director).
So, my vote for speeding is one ticket. I only wish I could remember how many speeding tickets I've gotten. I can remember at least seven. I've gotten off twice with warnings, and I've been stopped, but gotten off twice for other violations. Now you know why I had to take defensive driving classes.
Can you remember being in the Fiero at IPFW when I hit the accelerator instead of the break, and went through the stop sign, hitting some lady? I always felt bad that I was such a bad example to you, and I felt awful at breaking my new toy!
Now that I'm 53, I'd like to say that I'm better, but I still have my occasional lapses. I beg forgiveness from you all.
Love, Claudia
well, the unsafe start and following too closely were on the same stop. i guess my reputation got the best of me on that one.
i got a seat belt ticket after wrecking the crash mobile the second time. i hate being honest. he asked me if i had it on and i said no, so he wrote me a ticket. nice. i also had to get a wrecker to pull me out of the mud when i pulled to the side of the road after the accident. then he wrote me the ticket after the wrecker. what a chump.
i'm not positive about the 106/55 ticket. i thought i remembered that over 30 beyond the speed limit, it was coded simply as "wreckless driving", but i could be wrong. for the sake of argument, we'll call it my first speeding ticket. i think it was the fall of 1992
if i remember right, my second speeding ticket was during the summer of 1994. i was driving the crash mobile with my "ex-girlfriend who shall not be named" on the way to cedar point. the officer wrote the ticket for 68/55. i called bulls*%t. i told him i knew for a fact my speedometer said 60. he told me where to go to court. i don't remember how i got the day off work (GM summer help) but i drove the 1.5? hours to the courthouse somewhere in ohio. the courtroom was in the basement of what appeared to be an old church. very po-dunk. there was exposed piping and everything. i was the only one there and i sat in a folding chair. they called my case, i told them there was no way i was going 68 over. he must have made a mistake because i was only going 60. the judge told me that was still speeding. i admitted it was, but it was the truth.
what i hadn't realized was that at only 5 mph over the limit, it was a non-moving violation and therefore did not affect my insurance. thank goodness.
so thats it. you could say i had two speeding tickets, but i have actually only have had the one for 60 in a 55. the other was technically wreckless driving.
-ryan
Was that 106m.p.h. ticket for reckless driving? So maybe you have no speeding tickets. That is my guess!
LoVE DaD
My three tickets were all around 15 over... two 70 in 55's and a 50 in a 35. The first was when I was 16 driving to early morning seminary with the missionaries. Mom had been pulled over in the same place a week before at the same time and the guy let her go, so he felt it his obligation to give me a ticket since it was the second time he'd pulled the tracker over in that spot. Thanks mom. The second was going up to chicago to see a cubs game with marjorie. I passed an undercover camaro... I should have known. The third was coming back from a pacers game. and of course my failure to yield to a pedestrian... which was total BS.
-karl
I'm almost positive it was listed simply as wreckless driving. seriously, for all the dumb things i did, i tried to be attentive of my surroundings. can you dig it?
ryan
Ummm...I'm starting to wonder if we Gimbel's are bad drivers. 7 tickets Claudia?!?! That is substantial! I have only had one ticket myself. Right on red here in LA and paid $450 for it. Curse the LA cameras at traffic lights!!!
I may have only had one ticket, but I believe that I have backed into at least 2 cars. The cars weren't moving at the time. I think that is pretty bad...I know that I am not a great driver
maybe, betsey, you are speaking for the female contingent. i'm a good driver, kinda. maybe not. i try to be thoughtful. oh well.
ryan
yeah my friends were asking if we are all crazy drivers. My opinion is that mom, ryan, marjorie, and myself are all kind of crazy drivers. Dad is pretty calm behind the wheel in his old age and it seems betsey is too. I think rusty is pretty calm behind the wheel too, but I haven't really driven with you too much dude. I'll share some of my youthful perceptions, as I know mom just loves knowing what we kids think about our childhood. Mom I consider you to be a crazy driver because when you would drive in Chicago on the expressways when we were younger it was scary as hell. You would always be really close to people and brake really hard. I never wanted to sit in the front seat... not to mention you don't remember how many tickets you've had!!! Ryan I think you're crazy just cause you like driving cars and know how to drive them. I think you are pretty selective with your craziness though. Marjorie is crazy because she lived in the big city of Chicago and is impatient... she honks, she flips off, she starts fast, she brakes fast... it's a fun and scary experience. Just ask Casey and Ashley. They were almost beaten up because of Marjorie ;)
I think I'm kind of a mix of all. I'm just kind of silly like mom, I think I know how to drive a car and I can be pretty impatient at times. I find though that the bigger the vehicle I drive the slower I go.
-karl
I'm flattered that Karl said I'm a fairly calm driver sinceI'm the only Gimbel who's totaled a car in the last 18 months. Thanks man.
I got a lot slower after the summer of 2003 when I got two speeding tickets in the span of a week, both in excess of 15 mph over, one by a Wyoming state trooper and the other thanks to an Adams Countie mountie. Yuck.
I set the cruise at 5 over these days. Well, I don't set the cruise at anything, because I wrecked my car. Other than those two, I've had a 'wrong way down a one-way' (past the Decatur PD I might add) and I went to 'Traffic School' in Provo once to avoid a ticket. I wasn't aware (at the time) that most residential roads in Utah are 25 mph. It's 30mph in Indiana, right? I think that's it. The statie three weeks ago let me off because no one else was involved and I think he felt sorry for me.
I'd like to say I was calm during the incident so maybe there's more to Karls overly-kind assertion. I realized quickly that I had over-corrected and simply groweled "Shit." repeatedly as I fought to get the Saturn back under control.
Meridth (who has zero tickets and zero accidents, by the way) was really quite shaken by the whole thing and she was really amazed at how calmly I rolled down (up?) the windows so we could crawl out of the car. I just remember thinking that getting excited about it wasn't going to help things.
Anyway, thanks for the undeserved compliment Karl.
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