Flashing lights in the rear view mirror

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This morning we got up as usual, before the sun. Daughter got ready and as usual I tell her at 6:23 the alarm is going off it's time to head down to the bus stop. She grabs a hoodie as it's starting to rain outside and heads out the door telling her dad and I she loves us and to have a good day and repeat the same phrase. She calls me at 6:40 to inform me that the bus driver just drove on by her. Ok, well head back to the house and I will take you to school. Now I'm rushing around trying to finish getting ready so that I can driver her 15 min in the opposite direction to get her to school. My alarm is set for 7:20 to tell me I should be on the road heading to work. We hop in the car at 6:55 to head to school, I'm thinking I'm going to be late to work. I'm traveling down this little farm road, its only 2 lanes no sidewalks or bike lane, but no real traffic on the road, which is pretty usual. I can see the stop light ahead still about a mileish away when I see flashing lights in my rear view mirror, and the vehicle is like right on my butt. As the officer is getting out of his car I have rolled my window down and placed both hands on my steering wheel, as he leans down he tells me he pulled me over for speeding. I acknowledge that and inform him that I have a gun on my hip. He thanks me for letting him know and says that if I keep mine there he will keep his in place also. I of course, agree. Meanwhile my thirteen year old is cracking up in the car, probably because she is witnessing her mother getting a ticket for doing wrong. He of course asks for my license and registration and proof of insurance and I explain that my license is in the backseat in my bag, is it okay that I reach around for it? I don't want to make the officer nervous with moving around. He says its' ok and I ask my daughter to open the glove box and get the papers out so that I can hand him the needed items. He goes back to his car to check things out, and write my ticket. My daughter believes that he should let me go and not give me a ticket, and I explained that, that wasn't going to happen, I was speeding and that the reason didn't justify it. So I got a big fat ticket, $179.50 if I pay it in the next 20 days it will only be 2 points on my license instead of 4. I know that I'm responsible for driving to fast, but I can't help but think that if the bus driver hadn't drove on past and left my daughter behind then I wouldn't have been on the road that I was on speeding to get her to school to get to work on time. In the end my daughter was late, and the office got to hear my rant, and I had to call my boss to let him know I would be late as I couldn't speed today since I already got a big fat ticket. To top it off work has been hectic this morning, which is unusual, but seems to be how my day is going to go. How's everyone else's day going?