Comments on: Crimes and Misdemeanors. http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/ Deplorable solipsism? The new face of literature? Or merely a clever procrastination device... Mon, 21 May 2012 20:34:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jill http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/comment-page-1/#comment-259384 Jill Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:52:57 +0000 http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/#comment-259384 I love our justice system. No, really I do! I had my license suspended for failing to pay a parking ticket. It cost me over $2,000 to clean THAT mess up. Plus I had points on my license, which increased out insurance payments enormously for three YEARS. All this because I was attending a beading workshop in a quaint New Jersey university town and thought I had a few minutes' grace time on the parking meter. I didn't expect the jackbooted thugs on meter patrol in P*rinceton to be so johnny on the spot. It's irrational I know, but I feel I'm owed a good tri-state killing spree in return for the aggravation I went through. I love our justice system. No, really I do!
I had my license suspended for failing to pay a parking ticket.
It cost me over $2,000 to clean THAT mess up. Plus I had points on my license, which increased out insurance payments enormously for three YEARS.
All this because I was attending a beading workshop in a quaint New Jersey university town and thought I had a few minutes’ grace time on the parking meter.
I didn’t expect the jackbooted thugs on meter patrol in P*rinceton to be so johnny on the spot.
It’s irrational I know, but I feel I’m owed a good tri-state killing spree in return for the aggravation I went through.

]]> By: AmeliaSprout http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/comment-page-1/#comment-259298 AmeliaSprout Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:56:58 +0000 http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/#comment-259298 I missed a license suspension for a parking ticket I don't remember getting (stupid St. Paul snow parking rules) before moving out of the state for FOUR years. (missed because I moved around the time it was sent) Only found out when I tried to get a license in MN after moving back and had to have someone drive me to St. Paul (three hours from my location) to resolve the matter. Four years of illegally driving... Glad to hear that EI went well, she does seem quite brilliant, so hopefully there will be no need to take advantage of all of that. I missed a license suspension for a parking ticket I don’t remember getting (stupid St. Paul snow parking rules) before moving out of the state for FOUR years. (missed because I moved around the time it was sent) Only found out when I tried to get a license in MN after moving back and had to have someone drive me to St. Paul (three hours from my location) to resolve the matter. Four years of illegally driving…

Glad to hear that EI went well, she does seem quite brilliant, so hopefully there will be no need to take advantage of all of that.

]]> By: Goldilocks http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/comment-page-1/#comment-259126 Goldilocks Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:48:02 +0000 http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/#comment-259126 A perp walk and judicial tongue-lashing are nothing compared to a baby who doesn't nap. I went through the same thing (the 20-minute napping, not the felonious driving) and just wanted to tell you that things will get better in another month or so. A perp walk and judicial tongue-lashing are nothing compared to a baby who doesn’t nap. I went through the same thing (the 20-minute napping, not the felonious driving) and just wanted to tell you that things will get better in another month or so.

]]> By: kerry http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/comment-page-1/#comment-258321 kerry Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:52:53 +0000 http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/#comment-258321 That would totally happen to me. That would totally happen to me.

]]> By: Alicia http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/comment-page-1/#comment-257720 Alicia Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:36:49 +0000 http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/#comment-257720 wow!! that is craziness! I am glad it is all sorted out now. talk about stressful! and yay for EI appointments, that is so great! It sounds like she is doing wonderful! wow!! that is craziness! I am glad it is all sorted out now. talk about stressful!

and yay for EI appointments, that is so great! It sounds like she is doing wonderful!

]]> By: I http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/comment-page-1/#comment-257715 I Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:17:01 +0000 http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/#comment-257715 Alexa, I've read you all the way through in the past few weeks and have laughed, snorted and cried and cried over the sad loss of Ames and how much you all had to go through. You are a wonderful writer and every other blog pales in comparison really. Simone is a beaut. Much love you you and yours. Ixx Alexa,
I’ve read you all the way through in the past few weeks and have laughed, snorted and cried and cried over the sad loss of Ames and how much you all had to go through. You are a wonderful writer and every other blog pales in comparison really. Simone is a beaut.
Much love you you and yours.
Ixx

]]> By: Alex http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/comment-page-1/#comment-257708 Alex Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:57:38 +0000 http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/#comment-257708 Yeah, I too struggle with the "do work while watching baby" or "just play with baby" thing, and I have mine in daycare four days a week. I find it hard to strike the right balance (and just when I've figured something that works out, he's grown up enough that it doesn't work anymore), but find it's definitely better to be 100% focused on playing with baby when possible. I'm a big fan, too, of us adults having some adult time to preserve our own sanity and cognitive abilities so that we can focus on the baby when with the baby... As for the whole license situation, good grief. I think you did the right thing in paying more. I had to be similarly well behaved for a year after I tried to exit an interstate gridlock situation by driving on the shoulder to get to a nearby exit because I, ah, needed the facilities. Cop stopped me, I ended up using a grassy knoll (not the Kennedy one; mine was in VA), had to wait until the gridlock ended, and hire a lawyer, alas, alack. Plus the whole good for a year, thing...good luck to ya'! Yeah, I too struggle with the “do work while watching baby” or “just play with baby” thing, and I have mine in daycare four days a week. I find it hard to strike the right balance (and just when I’ve figured something that works out, he’s grown up enough that it doesn’t work anymore), but find it’s definitely better to be 100% focused on playing with baby when possible. I’m a big fan, too, of us adults having some adult time to preserve our own sanity and cognitive abilities so that we can focus on the baby when with the baby…

As for the whole license situation, good grief. I think you did the right thing in paying more. I had to be similarly well behaved for a year after I tried to exit an interstate gridlock situation by driving on the shoulder to get to a nearby exit because I, ah, needed the facilities. Cop stopped me, I ended up using a grassy knoll (not the Kennedy one; mine was in VA), had to wait until the gridlock ended, and hire a lawyer, alas, alack. Plus the whole good for a year, thing…good luck to ya’!

]]> By: Marti from Michigan http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/comment-page-1/#comment-257689 Marti from Michigan Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:38:54 +0000 http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/#comment-257689 Sheesh! It sounds like they treat you worse than a murderer over a small driver license indiscretion. The justice system everywhere is a mess and needs to be fixed, if it ever will. Glad you got it figured out though. Not like you're going to drag race with an infant in your car on Dead Man's Curve or anything. Simone is ever beautiful and sounds like she's catching up and doing well. She is so adorable, and YES YOU ARE A WONDERFUL MOM!!! :) Sheesh! It sounds like they treat you worse than a murderer over a small driver license indiscretion. The justice system everywhere is a mess and needs to be fixed, if it ever will. Glad you got it figured out though. Not like you’re going to drag race with an infant in your car on Dead Man’s Curve or anything.

Simone is ever beautiful and sounds like she’s catching up and doing well. She is so adorable, and YES YOU ARE A WONDERFUL MOM!!!

:)

]]> By: bethany http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/comment-page-1/#comment-257685 bethany Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:21:31 +0000 http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/#comment-257685 OOOHHHHH--middle class mother struggles with work/life balance. Alert the media. OOOHHHHH–middle class mother struggles with work/life balance. Alert the media.

]]> By: tash http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/comment-page-1/#comment-257683 tash Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:16:53 +0000 http://flotsamblog.com/2008/09/15/crimes-and-misdemeanors/#comment-257683 A very similar thing happened when we moved here to PA and finally got around to getting our cars registered, and discovered, lo, that my husband's license had been suspended in NYState 18 YEARS AGO. Wuh? We remembered, then, a fender bender in college, which was not his fault, when he was driving a university van. He had license, but van lacked proof of insurance, but since it belonged to the University we thought everything was taken care of. Apparently not. We spent a few crazy weeks switching car titles to my name in order to register them without penalty, and then had to spend a few months sorting out this nightmare which also involved a court hearing he never heard wind of even though they had his home address from the license. Case closed. Until we missed a car insurance payment the month Maddy died. And apparently drove a few months without. And repeatedly called them for other things, and they never informed us that we had missed a bill. Until we somehow discovered it, and then we had to resign up from scratch with new higher rates even though we had been customers for over 10 years. It's one big racket, I tell you. Drive safe. A very similar thing happened when we moved here to PA and finally got around to getting our cars registered, and discovered, lo, that my husband’s license had been suspended in NYState 18 YEARS AGO. Wuh? We remembered, then, a fender bender in college, which was not his fault, when he was driving a university van. He had license, but van lacked proof of insurance, but since it belonged to the University we thought everything was taken care of.

Apparently not. We spent a few crazy weeks switching car titles to my name in order to register them without penalty, and then had to spend a few months sorting out this nightmare which also involved a court hearing he never heard wind of even though they had his home address from the license.

Case closed. Until we missed a car insurance payment the month Maddy died. And apparently drove a few months without. And repeatedly called them for other things, and they never informed us that we had missed a bill. Until we somehow discovered it, and then we had to resign up from scratch with new higher rates even though we had been customers for over 10 years.

It’s one big racket, I tell you. Drive safe.

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