How Would I Know That?

Have you ever unintentionally broken the law?

The only way you would know that you had unintentionally broken a law would be to be arrested for it. On the other hand have I ever intentionally broken the law? Oh, hell yeah. I will take the 5th amendment so no one is going to know. But this ridiculous writing prompt has led me to a story. In my younger day I use to play golf with these “old guys”, who were probably younger than I am now. I played with them one time per week and we teed off at the crack of dawn. That meant in late June early July it was 5am. I would get up at 4:30, splash cold water on my face, brush my teeth, put a ball cap over my long greasy hair, and out the door. I would make it just when they were heading down to the first tee. One day I was running a little late and was at a traffic light waiting for the left turn arrow to change to green. Through traffic had the green light. There was only the street on my left. In other words there was no road to my right. It was 4:45 in the morning and hardly any traffic. I could see one car on my left waiting for the light to change which would be next. Being late I thought what the hell, I’ll just make the left against the red light. To this day I do not know why I didn’t do it. The light changed on my through street to red and the traffic on the left started to move out. The third car out was a police car. I could not believe it. It could have turned out to be a very expensive round of golf. I made it to the first tee on time anyway. Now I have done things unintentionally, like shit my pants, fell jogging, spilled many glasses full of liquid and gotten lost. Unintentionally breaking the law, how the hell would I know?