zen in the defensive drivin' class

I was young and had to take defensive drivin' in my home town of Pearland, TX. It was an all-day thing in this little room in a strip mall. Well, to kick things off, the woman runnin' the class makes everyone take a turn and tell why they are there. It comes to this older man's turn and he says that he was caught speeding over near 288. He was going 56 in a 55. The cop had told him that he (the cop) was having a bad morning and so the man could protest if he wished.

But, this man said, if he had protested, then he wouldn't be in that room that morning, taking defensive driving, with all of those wonderful people. Now, how 'bout that, huh?!