Aargh. Got pulled over today at a registration checkpoint because my inspection was due last month. So the cop runs my license, and he says “Ma’am, your license is suspended.” Whaa? We’re on the Exit ramp onto a major highway, he has me call someone on his cell phone THAT SECOND (He won’t let me wait 15 minutes for someone to get into work to come get me, so I have to call someone across the river), so I get a ride to come pick me up. They tow the car, my ride takes me home.
I call the DMV and they say “You have unpaid tickets”. I call the Town Court, and they say “Indeed, come in Monday and pay for them.” So that’s all resolved except my stoopid car is still at the tow place and there is only one driver in the house so I’m not sure how we’re going to get there other than take a cab.
The cop was very nice. I’m embarrased to say I was crying, but I was…I couldn’t help myself. Just an FYI, I’ve never had a speeding ticket or a parking ticket in ten years of driving. I’m a good driver! And now I have two court dates in the next two weeks, and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. To make a long story short (too late!) it’s going to cost $$$$$$$$$$.
I’m pitting myself for my stupidity and my bad luck. Someone else said it here: If my luck was packaged, it would be a WMD.
In other news, someone else got pulled over ahead of me - for drinking and driving. Three guys, one about 40 and the other two in their 20’s. I watched as they cuffed the guy, and then opened up the back of the car to reveal cases and cases and cases of beer, with two of them open. I watched as one guy poured his beer all over the parking lot. I thought I was the bad one!
Bear in mind this only happened today, so i’m just discovering it all. More detail:
Years ago, I had license suspended for failure to pay insurance. I wasn’t driving at the time, I just didn’t follow the correct procedure. So I reinstated my license, got insurance, and paid two tickets which were sent to me.
What I didn’t know/missed from whatever reason/I don’t know what else/ was there were two more, which never got paid. So promptly thereafter, they apparently suspended it again.
You’d think someone would have told me. I’m not blaming anyone but myself, but I got a letter from the DMV to re-register my car, so it’s not like they didn’t know how to get in touch with me. And the courthouse didn’t send me anything either.
I mean, I guess I’m a little cross that a perfectly good driver like me could get so screwed because of one mistake.
Get your {hugs} here. I once went through almost the exact same thing, except for one difference:
I took a day off of work to get it all straightened out, and after coming home from a full day of stupidity and beaurocracy on a collossal scale, I felt like I had to engage in a small act of violence. You know, to blow off steam. So I elected to take off my jacket and slam it down on my bed as hard as I could. Unfortunately, I also slammed my middle finger down just as hard, bending it significantly backwards. Thus, the cherry on the banana split of my sucky day was a trip to the ER.
Tonight you deserve to be pampered. I say, whoever else is in the house with you must give you a foot rub, run you a nice hot bubble bath, bring you your favorite beverage to sip on while soaking, then allow you to watch your favorite all time movie while all propped up on the couch with plenty of snacks and drink to tide you over.
If anybody bitches about it Elenia28 just tell them this was proclaimed on The Dope and thus must be done.
I dunno, not to go all Liberal on you or anything, but it was mostly you and not your luck. You didn’t get your car inspected so you got pulled over. Plus, somehow you didn’t get your license problems totally cleared up years ago when you had the previous problem. Your luck was actually extremely good in that you were driving for ten years without getting snagged.
I have sympathy, I do crap like this all the time. I’m slack about registering/renewing things and will let it get to a point where it costs me major moolah, time, and aggravation to get it cleared up. But, I’m pretty much always pissed at myself and not anything else…
Oh, for fuck’s sake. She’s had a really crappy day, so why do you feel the need to be a self-righteous putz at her? Was it so hard to just keep your yap shut and not give your little ration of crap to someone who doesn’t need any more crap today?
Ten years?? It was more like 2! And I thought I **had ** taken care of it, that’s the thing. I just wish someone would have told me when they sent me other stuff. “Please renew your registration. Oh, and, since this is coming from the DMV as well, your license is expired you stupid girl.” And the reason I was pissed at my luck, which I stupidly didn’t put in the OP, is because it happened on a day when I was driving to a very important meeting with my boss and others. Every other day my boss wouldn’t care one whit if I was late, but this day she did, and I don’t have a cell phone, so I basically just didn’t show up to the meeting. :eek:
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Tonight you deserve to be pampered. I say, whoever else is in the house with you must give you a foot rub, run you a nice hot bubble bath, bring you your favorite beverage to sip on while soaking, then allow you to watch your favorite all time movie while all propped up on the couch with plenty of snacks and drink to tide you over.
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Thanks, swampbear. I just never saw the point of bubble baths, I have to admit. Don’t really enjoy them…my showers are usually between 3 and 10 minutes.
I would think that the above doesn’t sound too much fun for anyone but the recipient. Unless, of course, you’d *like * to be my personal manservant. In which case, come on over.
Boyfriend might not approve, but we do have a guest room!
Wow, someone’s massively cranky today. I didn’t feel I was being all self-righteous, as I noted, I do stuff like this all the time. She can rant all she wants, it’s the pit. And, as I noted I sympathize, it’s happened to me, I’ve wound up bursting into tears in a courtroom 'cause of some stupid thing I didn’t take care. But that’s how I look at it. Whenever I get snagged, I think “wow, I’ve been really lucky getting away with not getting in-state plates/not changing my license address/not getting my car inspected for this long, I’m such a goofball that I didn’t get this taken care of earlier.”
Anyway, Elenia28. sorry about the meeting with your boss. That *was]/i] really unfortunate timing…
