When I was 17, I passed my driving test and got my first speeding ticket a month later. I haven’t got better with age. Just before I started my slow journey, I was thrown out of a speed awareness class for not switching of my phone. Selling my car and moving onto a canal boat that put-puts at an average speed of four miles an hour has been a shock to the system.
ILLUSTRATION: SHUTTERSTOCK
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