The Fuzz And Fines...

This is just a fair little warning to all of you lovelies out there...When they say "Click It Or Ticket" THEY MEAN IT!

Why do I offer such a warning and how do I know such a fact? Some girl I know just had it happen to her... Okay, fine! It was me!

The other day I was in the car with my ma when all of the sudden those lovely flashing lights appeared in the rear view mirror. She pulls over. The officer approaches the window and asks her if she knows why he pulled her over. She lies and says "No, officer. I don't." He proceeds to tell her that it is because she changed two lanes at once without signaling. She apologizes. The fine officer then goes on to say, "Mam, I will just give you a warning on this, but I noticed that your passenger isn't wearing a seat belt. I am going to have to give her a ticket." (I am in disbelief here. But just wait, the astonishment increases dramatically...)
He takes our licenses and heads back to his car. As this is happening my Ma is using profanity saying that she is going to get a ticket anyway because her registration is expired.

Fast forward to Officer Friendly's return to our car window...

Mam (speaking to my Ma), I also noticed that your registration is expired. So I am going to issue you a warning for that as well. Ma proceeds with this monstrous lie "Oh officer, I guess I didn't realize that it was expired. I will get that taken care of right away!" And for you mam (speaking now to me), will you please sign this ticket? (Oh sweet mother of mercy, I should have had a seat belt on to hold me in the vehicle before I flew off into orbit due to the lies from my Ma and the pardon being given to her and her poor driving skills!)

So long story short, I went in to pay my ticket (I went in because it said in the letter I received in the mail that you would be charged $5 additional dollars if you paid by debit or credit card when you sent it in). And guess what?!? Those greedy jerks charged me the $5 anyway for using my debit card!!! I know, I couldn't believe it either.

(As a side note, the only consolation I got out of all of this is that my citation # ended in 6969...No joke, it really did.)

So ladies and gentlemen when you look at your seatbelt, you better click it or you will be paying your fine city 50 big ones...