Persuasive Essay About Bad Decisions

Most of my life I have lived carefree with no worries, until I became a parent. As a parent you do not just think about what consequences your decision will have on you, but you also stop and think how it will impact your children. Decision that may be made at the glimpse of a moment, can and usually will be recanted, due to the fact that it has simmered in your brain for a while and may or may not be a good idea after all. Never do you expect to make a decision that will have negative consequences, and we may try to make good decisions, but at times some decisions are bad choices, or over confident choices, and may bring about hefty consequences to pay in the long run. This brings me to our summer trip to Arizona about two years ago. My

He was not happy at all. The officer was actually very upset. He said “Do you know how fast you were going,” and I replied “No.” He stated that he had clocked me at well over 100 mph. He looked at the inside of my car and noticed that there was three kids in the car besides myself, and said “You know I are putting your children and yourself in danger as fast as you were going.” By then I was terrified, and thoughts of myself always trying to make the right choices, flashed in my brain. He continued by saying “You that at about 120mph I would have to arrest for child endangerment?” To think if he had clocked me just a couple minutes earlier at 120mph made me forget about going to the restroom. Just the thought of me losing my kids put the fear of God in me. I thought how could of I let this happen? How could I have been so irresponsible? Most of the time my head was always held up high because I was a very responsible parent, so I thought. I explained to the officer that I was running low on gas, and my cell had no signal so I did not know where the nearest gas station was, which brought on my lack of judgement. I did not even dare to say that I needed to go pee, because I was pregnant, as he had already threatened me with child endangerment, and I did not want to aggravate him anymore. The officer proceeded and wrote me a ticket and told me the next gas station was about 8-10 miles away. He also stated