on the road again

you know when you are driving towards that green light ... and you see it turning yellow ... and you step on the gas just a little bit harder ... maybe give a little highbeam action to let the people waiting at the other signals know you're not stopping and that they should hold their horses ... maybe honk your horn a couple times ... let them know i'm coming through ... sometimes you cross the finish line while it's still yellow ... other times you don't quite make it and the light just turns red as you reach it but you don't care and continue on ... we've all done it ... well i was in that situation today ... it was yellow and i was getting ready to run it when i noticed that there was a police car parked at the curb ... one of those undercover traffic police cars ... with their knightrider lights that go back and forth from side to side ... so i was like ok i guess i'll just slow down and wait for it to turn green again ... and as i waited at the signal i started to think ... it wasn't the fear of what might happen when you try to run a red light that made me stop ... you know like smashing into someone else ... no it was the fear of the policeman ... it didn't seem very logical ...