A NATIONAL DATABASE SHITS....zuki deals with adult o.d.d
Posted by marzuki on July 30 2010 04:00:00
Good Morning Vestigials,
Well, well, well....it seems the chickens have indeed come home to roost. Years of self-abuse; cigarettes, alcohol, and accoutrements suitable for the occasion has taken their toll physically and now walk with a permanent limp. In addition to my declining health, I now must deal with soulless government bureaucrats incapable of marginalizing my innocuous behavior. I don't wish to leave the wrong impression here, as these mindless assholes were not complicit in what's happening to me, rather their intrusion into my life is a direct result of years of scoffing at things such as tickets, court dates, and other things I found much too tedious. I'm only writing this account in hopes of teaching the two or three of you reading this 'warrant of arrest' that our inter-state system or 'National Database' will eventually reel you back to accountability. One would think I would learn this lesson as it's happened several times during my 60 rotations, but evidently my Adult O.D.D. renders me incapable of responding appropriately; therefore I suffer.
Looking back on twenty years of business travel, I remember being pulled over by local or state police at least a dozen times; mostly for speeding. This doesn’t count the 20 plus parking tickets I justified because the city didn't provide enough parking slots close to city hall. I had several bags and a laser speed gun to haul and didn't want to walk four to six blocks. By the time I got up the stairs and through security my shirt would have come un-tucked, wrinkled my suit coat, and sweated just enough to form visible 'pitts' when I shed the coat! To me anyway preventing this humiliation justified parking in reserved slots or commercial parking which almost always resulted in a ticket or worse a towing. Given the majority of these tickets were generated outside of Colorado I made an unconscious decision to ignore them. I always kept them in my car to remind me to pay them, but eventually they got buried under hamburger wrappers and other semi-important shit in my rear-seat file.
I realized my current drivers license expires first of August so I took the day off from work and girded up my loins to re-new it. I passed the eye-test so they entered my license number into the computer and from her face I immediately knew something was wrong. "Sir did you get tickets in MA, TX, SC, CA, and IOWA?" she inquired, and I sheepishly suggested there was a good chance given my extensive travel, but wasn't sure about specifics. She went on to explain that these were 'flags' tagged onto my license suggesting outstanding tickets or warrants and had to be cleared before they would issue a license. SHIT! What is so bizarre about this is how random it is. Not one of the flags involves speeding!
MA - right turn on red light
TX - parking in commercial zone
SC - rolling through stop sign
CA - not wearing a seat belt
IA - unspecified warrant
So at the very most inopportune time, a $15 parking ticket is now $98 and that was the least expensive of the group! Financially speaking it's clear I'll be driving without a license but also because public transportation (as documented on this forum) absolutely SUCKS!!! This poses a dilemma to be sure as the decision to drive illegally is the very same attitude that got me into my current mess. Yet what can I do?? What would you do?
In spite of the content on this forum I know a number of you to be intelligent bright individuals and seek your council. I don't want a lecture as I've beaten myself up reasonably well. But given my affliction, how can I break this cycle of stupid?
zuki