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MS,
I think you're right. In a perfect forum, in a perfect world, with perfect people we'd all think of others before ourselves and reply promptly and kindly to every post and never express and ill thought toward another.

But, it's none of those things here, or anywhere. We have 7500+ members...each with their own personality and reasons for being here. I don't think it's good that we are so critical of others. At the same time I don't think it's good when others can't take the time to look something up in their owner's manual or to do a search to see whether their question has been asked 100 times before or not. As unkind as you think the responses are I think the lack of effort on the poster's part is just as unkind.

Again, in your case you make, IMO, a very good point. You did get punished and surely are grown up enough to decide whether you'll speed in the future or not. I speed (downhill) all the time. I roll through stop signs. By posting that I know that there may be some goody two shoes out there who's going to reprimand me...My skin is thick enough to take it.

I ultimately totally agree that your big mistake was to mention the ticket in the first place...wanna bet you don't make a mistake like that again!?

Don't go away, it's not that bad here and you got a pretty benign tongue lashing. S**t happens, ignore what you don't like and move on. There's a lot more good to be gained here vs the bad that happens any day.