lol at typing in caps. I understand your thought. I've understood your thought since you posted it the first time. I have a right to disagree with it just like you have the right to disagree with my rebuttal. It boils down to not being anyone's problem but your own. It boils down to making sure your car is up to standard and is working properly. If YOU can't understand that I don't know what to tell you. It'd be nice if someone had the courtesy of paying my cable bill, it'd be nice if someone had the courtesy to pay for the Amsoil for the GTA...but the fact is it's my responsibility.
Again, you're coming up with a solution to a relatively minor and minute problem. In a way you ARE deflecting responsibility for the upkeep of your vehicle. I'm not making anything up as I go alone. You said it was ******** she got a ticket. So your beef is with the cop, not with the fact the bulb went out. You said and I quote "be nice if there was a campaign from the police force if they carried around headlights, and would give a person a warning, and a headlight". A campaign for police offers to handle issues that's the responsibility of the vehicle owner? So yes, in essence your idea IS to defect responsibility because of ONE person's peril and **** situation. The cop was a dick but was also in the right. It's really not hard to understand. Cops already give people warnings at their discretion....maybe the lady that came into your store was a bitch, maybe she mouthed off to the officer and gave him a hard time. You don't know, no one does but those that were involved. She very well could have talked herself INTO a ticket. So what if the officer gives someone a headlamp and the owner installs it wrong and it blows a day later...said officer sees the car again and now writes a ticket for the busted bulb and now starts looking for other stuff wrong...just saying.
There's a difference between courtesy and EXPECTING or feeling ENTITLED that someone else help you out. The courtesy on the cop's part is giving you a warning.
BTW, I've had ideas and statements on here blasted up, down, left, right and everywhere in between. It's a public forum, it's not the end of the world.
