Hypothetically, let’s say you were in Anchorage and had to get to Beaver Creek, Yukon in, oh… late July or so.  You’d probably be driving on the Glenn Highway if that were the case.

And let’s further say that you had just stopped at a coffee shack in the middle of nowhere on that highway for a hot cup of joe, so your mind wasn’t on the road so much as it was pondering, “Why are there so many coffee shacks in Alaska?”

Continuing with our potential situation, what if you crested a hill, saw a state trooper approaching in the other lane, and looked down at your speedometer to see you were speeding quite a lot faster than you had intended?  I mean, you would probably be trying to speed a little bit, but nothing like 25 mph over, right?

Now, I bet that you would pull over right away as soon as the trooper turned on her lights, even before she had the chance to turn around.  And I think you’d be polite and honest with the officer, because you heard once that being honest might work to get out of the ticket — and because the last time you were pulled over you lied, lied, lied and still got a ticket.

What do you think would happen?

Speculating, I’d guess that you’d still get the ticket, but for 10 over instead of 25 over.  Then I’d bet that you would think about whether or not to mention the incident on your blog, but I bet you’d probably write about it if you were scraping the bottom of the barrel for stories.

All totally hypothetical, of course.