The Florida Highway Patrol effectively washed its hands of the Tiger Woods car accident case and all the drama surrounding it. To the FHP, it was nothing more than a traffic accident, caused by careless driving, atoned for with 164 measly dollars.

Case closed. 

Never in my life have I wanted to be a traffic cop so badly. 

The Florida Highway Patrol might be finished with Tiger Woods, but the rest of the world is just getting started. 

Last week's National Enquirer story alleging the golfer was cheating on his wife, Elin Nordegren, was rumored to have possibly, indirectly, led to the crash. And that was only the beginning.

More women are coming forward and Tiger's "secret double-life" and multiple affairs are making headlines. Am I the only one who thinks it's going to get worse before it gets better?

I'm taking Tiger's side on this one. And Elin's. I just wish this whole mess would go away. 

Tiger's famous because of his phenomenal golf game. Have his "transgressions" impacted his golf game? I haven't watched enough golf - ever - to be able to tell, but I'm going to say no. And until it does, it's not our business. 

It's no one's business but Tiger's, Elin's, and whatever other women and disease clinics are actually involved. 

It's not like we haven't seen many other celebrities in very similar situations. So why do we still care? Are our own lives so boring that we have to grab onto all the drama we can find in the lives of our rich and famous? Or are our own lives so screwed up that we need to assure ourselves that even the pretty people have flaws?

If you've ever had to find a way to survive the kind of deceit and infidelity that Tiger and his wife are dealing with right now, you can empathize. Everything changes, generally without your consent and beyond your control. And if you've been in that position, or if you've watched someone close to you grapple with it, I sincerely hope you're going to make like the Florida Highway Patrol and ignore the whole thing from here on out.

This is not any sort of public scandal we need to worry about. It should remain, as Tiger said, a private family matter. Partly because I'm sick of hearing of it, but mainly out of consideration for Tiger and Elin's beautiful, innocent children. Daddy might be an immoral philanderer (and don't even get me started on the women who are coming forward now, presumably for their own profit) but those kids should never have to see that side of him. Thankfully, they're too young now to know what's going on, but they'll find out eventually, thanks to the former Tool Academy cast member (REALLY?? Come on. If you're going to cheat at least go for an upgrade. Oh, wait. You couldn't find anything better than this, could you?) and other women and the media, who didn't have the decency to take the Rachel Uchitel approach and deny anything happened. 

Tiger should not have put his family in this situation in the first place. The other women should not have made the ill-advised decisions to get involved with a married man - but once they did, they should not have gone public. (If I hear one word - one word - about how what they had was real and he really loved them, not Elin, I will lose it. LOSE IT.) 

And we, as a society, should not hang on every word of the revealing voicemails and tabloid reports that are seriously and irreversibly affecting an actual family. It's not entertainment. It's an unfortunate, difficult situation that could happen to anyone and we, as a society, should imagine ourselves in Elin's situation, or in the children's position. Walk past the tabloids. Don't click on TMZ. Move on with your life and stop worrying about someone else's. It's the right thing to do.