You think that’s bad? Let me tell you my speeding ticket story.
It was…October of my junior year in college. My parents came down to see my in a play I was in. The next morning (after the cast party, I remind you) I had to drive fifteen minutes to have breakfast with them. I was late, so I stepped on the gas a little more than usual, going 73 in a 55 (in my defense, it was a speedtrap. It’s a small part of I-87 north of Albany that it 55 MPH. Since I had only been driving on that road myself since last May, and not very often, I didn’t notice the ONE sign telling me it was 55 MPH (there is more than one sign, but only one from when I got on the interstate to where I got my ticket (about ten miles.))
Anyhoo, I get my ticket, was even more late, arived and had to say why (granted, it was my first ticket, so they went easy on me.) I checked the form saying not guilty on the back to request a court date and sent it in (seeing as it was my frist time, I figured the court would also go easy and bump it down so I didn’t get points ion my license.)
Well, about a month goes by, and I get a notice from the court, telling my to show up November 17th, or around there. Well…it was now well past November 17th. I looked at the envelope, and it was POSTMARKED on the 17th. Just how in the Hell am I suppossed to show up for a court date if the letter doesn’t get sent to me until that day?! I called up the courthouse and explained the situation, and they said they understood, and they were very back-logged, and a new date would be issued and I’d get a notice. Well, a month goes by…nothing. Another month, and another, and another, still nothing. By summer, I figure I was “lost in the shuffle,” as it were.
Well, come may of my senior year, I get a notice to show up to court for a speeding ticket I received in October of 2002. :smack: You’re kidding me?!
So I got a ticket at the start of my junior year and never went to court for it until a week before I graduated.
(FTR, it was reduced, but I still got a point or two on my license.)