Bad Day

It was bound to happen, and now it has. I got my first speeding ticket today. Okay, this is what happened. Thursday is the only day of the week that I don't have to drive my brother to class. Tuesdays and Thursdays he takes Algebra 2 at a local Christian school, and I drive him and Clayton Ferrazzo there on Tuesdays, and Mrs. Ferrazzo drives them on Thursdays. Well, this Thursday Mrs. F had a doctor's appointment that she forgot about, so I had to take them.

My dilemma: Their class starts at 10:45 and my GB class starts at 11:00. It is tight, but I can make it.

Not wanting to be late, I was clipping along at a nice pace. I was actually pulling into the United Faith Christian Academy parking lot when a policeman sitting RIGHT at the entrance waved me down. He didn't even turn on his lights. The boys got out, and opened my door, and gave him my liscens. Ends up I was going 59 in a 45. Since I was so compliant, he wrote me down for a 49 in a 45.

2 things about the whole situation are really bad. First, if I just pay the $130 and don't go to court, insurance will get info about it and I will have to pay $5000 over 5 years. In short, it would raise my month insurance from $60 a month to $147 a month. I can afford that, but it would be BRUTAL. EIther that or I could go to court on the assigned day, plead guilty, through myself down at the feet of the judge, and have him clear it. The only problem is that the court day for me is, of all days that it coul dhave been, April 4th. The day I should be sitting in NSA classes and the day I should be with my friends. That screwed EVERYTHING up. I honestly would have to miss 2 days of that weekend if I had to do that, because I honestly can't afford insurance that high. I mean, I can, but I can't, if that makes any sense.

BUT. There is hope. I called one of my best friends who had the same kind of situation, and he gave me the phone number from heaven. It was the phone number of the attorney that he used to get his ticket cleared without having to go to court. For $250ish I can hire this guy to go to court for me and talk to the judge and get it taken care of. And since the officer who pulled me over took the speed down 10 mph and made it look like I was only going 4 over instead of 14, it would make it even better. I have $250. Its going to hurt, but I can take it. I will still be able to go to Idaho, my insurance will still be low. So, I think everything will be okay. But I am super distracted and I have papers to write and physics to do...ugh. Just pray that I will be okay. Thankfully my parents didn't flip, because I had everything sorted out before I told them. But yeah. Yeah...

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Me.