Provocative speed

I guess we all have our week spots. I know I sometimes drive too fast, but hey, I like things fast, I like speed and this far nothing ever happened. I never even got a speeding ticket. Another weakness I have is that I, sometimes, am rather easily provoked (hence not only pretty provocative myself...:-)).

Now these things have combined in a quite unfortunate way. On one of the main roads in the area where I am staying, and one that I quite often drive, the police have placed speed surveillance cameras. Ok, that’s not such a big deal. It only takes one ride along the road and then you know exactly where the cameras are placed and of course you slow down in due time. But this is where the provocation comes into the picture. For me those cameras are pure provocation. I feel an urgent whish to drive unusually fast past them to see if they really work! I know it is stupid and irrational and that it also can get very expensive (at about the same time as the cameras came up, they also increased the fine), but I can not help it. One day, when I feel rich, I will just have to try it. I wonder however if “being provoked by the cameras” and “just testing” will be accepted as extenuating circumstances….