I feel like crap...
...but that's OK, I look like crap too. I finally got a bunch of blood work taken and now I'm waiting for the results.
I didn't have any choice, I HAD to take care of that even though I don't have insurance nor the cash to pay for the doc, much less the lab costs. I gave the doc a post-dated check and set up payments with the lab.
I thought that I was dealing with everything just fine. Then, I called the courthouse to see when my court date was for a ticket that I got in 2005. I blew that one off because I had so many that it didn't really matter. I went to court, I didn't blow THAT off, but I blew off the $400 fine. Then, when all of my other driver's license stuff was taken care of and THIS ticket was the last one, I went to the court and asked the prosecutor if I could work off the fine instead of paying it since I couldn't afford it.
She said that I could and I was so pleased that I started the community service right away. That's when my father needed me so I went to Florida. When I got back, I finished the community service and had the people that I worked for give me a letter stating that I had done what I needed to do. The only problem was that the guy who was there when I worked a few months before wasn't there at the time so all they could give me was a letter for 16 out of 24 hours. I asked the people at the church (I did my community service at a church) if they would vouch for the fact that I had been there in February.
I would have understood if they had simply said, "We can't do that." But they did more then that. When the court lady called the church to verify the 16 hours, some idiot told them that I had tried to get them to "lie" about my hours. I couldn't believe that. I had NEVER asked anyone to lie nor WOULD I ever do that. But, the judge believed it. Anyway, they told me to go do the 8 hours again so I did. (I also got a letter from the guy who said that I DID do the original 8 hours but I haven't had a chance to do anything with it yet because of the way things happened...but I will, I will.)
Since I was ordered to do another 8 hours, I did. I didn't want to show up with my letter and then find out that I had disobeyed the "spirit" of the order. So, I did my 8 hours, (somewhere else this time!) and received ANOTHER letter. I was so pleased to get this entire thing over with...after all, I had my new letter and the letter that said that I was telling the truth in the first place. But, I was living in a fool's paradise.
When I went up to the judge, she told me that I had been accused of stealing something, I don't know what. Then, when I tried to say that I didn't know what she was talking about, Judge Bridgette Campbell said to me, "Don't even insult my intelligence by denying it."
What the hell do you do in a situation like that? I didn't have an attorney, I didn't need one. All I had to do was drop off that letter. So, I stood there in front of the judge stunned and speechless. I didn't know what to do. There's very little that I despise more than being falsely accused of something. My parents accused me of something that I hadn't done when I was a kid:
http://diaryofmydivorce.blogspot.com/2007/09/uh.html
...and ever since then, I've gone out of my way to be sure not to falsely accuse people of transgressions that I can't prove. I think my kids got away with a lot of stuff because of that...but I wouldn't want to make anyone feel the way I felt that day when my parents both accused me with their only evidence, the fact that I had acne so I must have been the one to steal the chocolate cupcake.
Anyway, standing in front of a judge who could lock me up for contempt of court put me in a bad situation and that was the wrong time to prove any points. I just stood there like an idiot, figuring that I would deal with it all after this stupid 'driving on an invalid license' case was over.
So, the judge said for me to just do the community service over again, all 24 hours of it. I didn't mind that so much as I did the idea of being accused of stealing something. But, as I said, there wasn't a damn thing that I could do about it then so I just went home and did the 24 hours...AGAIN...and I had a new court date.
I had it in my head that the new court date was August 20-something. I finished the community service a while ago. All I had to do was take it in on my court date. Since it was getting close to the date, yesterday I called the courthouse...first of all to see when the court date was, and secondly to ask if I HAD to go to court or if could I just drop the letter verifying my service at the clerk's office.
Well, I found out that I had missed the court date. It was on the 15th.
Yesterday, I called everyone that I could think at the courthouse to find out what to do but no one ever called me back. So this morning I just went to the courthouse to take care of it. After standing in line to see what to do I was directed to go speak to the bailiff in court room 2D. I did that. After sitting in the court room for a while, he had me go sit out in the hall so that he could go and get the judge's secretary. I sat there for a while, annoyed at the entire situation. I think I was more angry with myself at that point, it WAS my fault that I missed the court date.
When she came out, she called to verify the community service. This time, I did the community service where I usually do volunteer work so I wasn't worried about it at all. (At first I didn't even know they allowed you to do it there or I would have done it there in the very beginning, if I had...if, if, if.) If they wanted to speak to ANYONE they would find out that I've been going there for a LONG time...and never once have I EVER been accused of stealing a damned thing. As a matter of fact, I don't ever remember being accused of being a thief, not since the cupcake incident anyway.
Then the secretary told me that I needed to pay $65 to have the "warrant removed". That liar led me to believe that there was already a warrant out for my arrest and that the cops would be coming to my house. I didn't know what to do. I didn't have 65 bucks. I did have 109 bucks in my checking account, but I had 100 bucks worth of checks out, not counting the post-dated check I gave to the doctor.
I had a decision to make, should I pay her 65 to stay out of jail or should I make sure my checking account didn't get overdrawn? I even thought about just letting her send me to jail so I didn't have to worry about the money. But, I couldn't do that to my kids and my grandkids. They would freak. So, guess what I did?
That idiot had me so freaked out that I just took the money out of my checking account. I didn't want to do that but I didn't know what else to do.
So, I paid the court and I asked, "Is this entire thing over now?" The woman at the window said that it was so now I can safely tell you about it and I can start to try to figure out how to find out who accused me of theft and how I can take care of that bullshit.
Oh! Speaking of bullshit, when I asked her to be sure to have the arrest warrant recalled, she looked through my file and said that there hadn't been an arrest warrant issued. I asked her how she could be so sure and she explained it to me...the warrant would be in my file because the judge would have signed it and it was the judge's file. Then she said, "And as long as you didn't get pulled over, you'd be safe anyway because the cops never go out looking for Failure to Appear suspects.
That first wench lied like a rug. And SHE works with the people who accused ME of lying and threatened, oh so righteously, to "lock me up" every time I said something that they didn't like. I just stopped saying anything to them. Now I see why they protest too much...they're actually guilty of so much crap themselves that they take out their feelings on those whom they can...people who are in court to avoid jail.
Nurses are NOT allowed to threaten to put a needle in your arm "if you don't eat!" so I don't think that court workers should be able to lie about arrest warrants. I would have done whatever I had to do, she never had to lie to me.
I wish I would have just paid the money in the first place. I'd love to find out how much courts take in as opposed to how much casinos take it. I don't know which is the bigger money maker but I am sure that courts are mainly interested in taking in cash. Justice is a guise they use to justify their huge cash register.
What a shame.
...but that's OK, I look like crap too. I finally got a bunch of blood work taken and now I'm waiting for the results.
I didn't have any choice, I HAD to take care of that even though I don't have insurance nor the cash to pay for the doc, much less the lab costs. I gave the doc a post-dated check and set up payments with the lab.
I thought that I was dealing with everything just fine. Then, I called the courthouse to see when my court date was for a ticket that I got in 2005. I blew that one off because I had so many that it didn't really matter. I went to court, I didn't blow THAT off, but I blew off the $400 fine. Then, when all of my other driver's license stuff was taken care of and THIS ticket was the last one, I went to the court and asked the prosecutor if I could work off the fine instead of paying it since I couldn't afford it.
She said that I could and I was so pleased that I started the community service right away. That's when my father needed me so I went to Florida. When I got back, I finished the community service and had the people that I worked for give me a letter stating that I had done what I needed to do. The only problem was that the guy who was there when I worked a few months before wasn't there at the time so all they could give me was a letter for 16 out of 24 hours. I asked the people at the church (I did my community service at a church) if they would vouch for the fact that I had been there in February.
I would have understood if they had simply said, "We can't do that." But they did more then that. When the court lady called the church to verify the 16 hours, some idiot told them that I had tried to get them to "lie" about my hours. I couldn't believe that. I had NEVER asked anyone to lie nor WOULD I ever do that. But, the judge believed it. Anyway, they told me to go do the 8 hours again so I did. (I also got a letter from the guy who said that I DID do the original 8 hours but I haven't had a chance to do anything with it yet because of the way things happened...but I will, I will.)
Since I was ordered to do another 8 hours, I did. I didn't want to show up with my letter and then find out that I had disobeyed the "spirit" of the order. So, I did my 8 hours, (somewhere else this time!) and received ANOTHER letter. I was so pleased to get this entire thing over with...after all, I had my new letter and the letter that said that I was telling the truth in the first place. But, I was living in a fool's paradise.
When I went up to the judge, she told me that I had been accused of stealing something, I don't know what. Then, when I tried to say that I didn't know what she was talking about, Judge Bridgette Campbell said to me, "Don't even insult my intelligence by denying it."
What the hell do you do in a situation like that? I didn't have an attorney, I didn't need one. All I had to do was drop off that letter. So, I stood there in front of the judge stunned and speechless. I didn't know what to do. There's very little that I despise more than being falsely accused of something. My parents accused me of something that I hadn't done when I was a kid:
http://diaryofmydivorce.blogspot.com/2007/09/uh.html
...and ever since then, I've gone out of my way to be sure not to falsely accuse people of transgressions that I can't prove. I think my kids got away with a lot of stuff because of that...but I wouldn't want to make anyone feel the way I felt that day when my parents both accused me with their only evidence, the fact that I had acne so I must have been the one to steal the chocolate cupcake.
Anyway, standing in front of a judge who could lock me up for contempt of court put me in a bad situation and that was the wrong time to prove any points. I just stood there like an idiot, figuring that I would deal with it all after this stupid 'driving on an invalid license' case was over.
So, the judge said for me to just do the community service over again, all 24 hours of it. I didn't mind that so much as I did the idea of being accused of stealing something. But, as I said, there wasn't a damn thing that I could do about it then so I just went home and did the 24 hours...AGAIN...and I had a new court date.
I had it in my head that the new court date was August 20-something. I finished the community service a while ago. All I had to do was take it in on my court date. Since it was getting close to the date, yesterday I called the courthouse...first of all to see when the court date was, and secondly to ask if I HAD to go to court or if could I just drop the letter verifying my service at the clerk's office.
Well, I found out that I had missed the court date. It was on the 15th.
Yesterday, I called everyone that I could think at the courthouse to find out what to do but no one ever called me back. So this morning I just went to the courthouse to take care of it. After standing in line to see what to do I was directed to go speak to the bailiff in court room 2D. I did that. After sitting in the court room for a while, he had me go sit out in the hall so that he could go and get the judge's secretary. I sat there for a while, annoyed at the entire situation. I think I was more angry with myself at that point, it WAS my fault that I missed the court date.
When she came out, she called to verify the community service. This time, I did the community service where I usually do volunteer work so I wasn't worried about it at all. (At first I didn't even know they allowed you to do it there or I would have done it there in the very beginning, if I had...if, if, if.) If they wanted to speak to ANYONE they would find out that I've been going there for a LONG time...and never once have I EVER been accused of stealing a damned thing. As a matter of fact, I don't ever remember being accused of being a thief, not since the cupcake incident anyway.
Then the secretary told me that I needed to pay $65 to have the "warrant removed". That liar led me to believe that there was already a warrant out for my arrest and that the cops would be coming to my house. I didn't know what to do. I didn't have 65 bucks. I did have 109 bucks in my checking account, but I had 100 bucks worth of checks out, not counting the post-dated check I gave to the doctor.
I had a decision to make, should I pay her 65 to stay out of jail or should I make sure my checking account didn't get overdrawn? I even thought about just letting her send me to jail so I didn't have to worry about the money. But, I couldn't do that to my kids and my grandkids. They would freak. So, guess what I did?
That idiot had me so freaked out that I just took the money out of my checking account. I didn't want to do that but I didn't know what else to do.
So, I paid the court and I asked, "Is this entire thing over now?" The woman at the window said that it was so now I can safely tell you about it and I can start to try to figure out how to find out who accused me of theft and how I can take care of that bullshit.
Oh! Speaking of bullshit, when I asked her to be sure to have the arrest warrant recalled, she looked through my file and said that there hadn't been an arrest warrant issued. I asked her how she could be so sure and she explained it to me...the warrant would be in my file because the judge would have signed it and it was the judge's file. Then she said, "And as long as you didn't get pulled over, you'd be safe anyway because the cops never go out looking for Failure to Appear suspects.
That first wench lied like a rug. And SHE works with the people who accused ME of lying and threatened, oh so righteously, to "lock me up" every time I said something that they didn't like. I just stopped saying anything to them. Now I see why they protest too much...they're actually guilty of so much crap themselves that they take out their feelings on those whom they can...people who are in court to avoid jail.
Nurses are NOT allowed to threaten to put a needle in your arm "if you don't eat!" so I don't think that court workers should be able to lie about arrest warrants. I would have done whatever I had to do, she never had to lie to me.
I wish I would have just paid the money in the first place. I'd love to find out how much courts take in as opposed to how much casinos take it. I don't know which is the bigger money maker but I am sure that courts are mainly interested in taking in cash. Justice is a guise they use to justify their huge cash register.
What a shame.
posted by Meg Kelso | 3:39 PM
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By the way, I was cleared of the cupcake charges.
http://diaryofmydivorce.blogspot.com/2007/09/uh.html
:)
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