Angry Minute 6-15-01
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If you've ever needed proof of just how much money is wasted in this state, make a visit to your neighborhood courthouse.
There'll you find a plethora of people wasting other peoples time like a legislative session on Quaaludes.
Case in point.
Last week, while browsing the K Mart parking lot for my Jeep Wrangler, Minneapolis' MUST've seen the look of a ne'er-do-well written all over my face,
when decided to run my plates, out of at least 4 dozen other vehicles.
Not his fault, I obviously was up to no good.
With the pink fuzzy dice hanging from my mirror, he obviously knew I was looking for drag.

In short, he runs my plates, and informs me that my license was suspended.
So, down to the jail I go, post bond, and leave.
After making a few unsavory friends to cavort with at a later date, I decide to call in my marker, and phone my friend Occifer O'Malley.
All he can say is the Warrant for my arrest originates from a parking ticket in Wright County.

A ticket I should clarify WAS PAID.

Wright County says they sent the payment to the state.
The State says Wright County never sent it.
Wright county says here's proof,blah blah blah blah blah…!
What's going on here??
As an aficionado of making mistakes, I can understand they happen,
but is this what it has come to when one DOESN'T pay a parking ticket?
Or worse, when one DOES pay a parking ticket.

IT"S A PARKING TICKET !!??

We're not some gangland drug runners, looking to make 12 year olds heroin junkies.
We parked and didn't put enough quarters in….(THAT's it.)
Put a freaking dollar changer near the meters if it's gonna mean a trip to Alcatraz.
What kind of watse of time is this?

Something tells me this is just another way the State of Minnesota figures out how to make a surplus out of criminals like me
just to make itself look shiny with a Tax Rebate. There's no arguing with the state either….
driving is a privilege and it's your responsibility to make sure Wright County doesn't lose your check!
Yeh, maybe next time I'll hire Jim Rockford to hold their hands while they do their job.
A job WE pay for with taxes… taxes that we'll get back with a surplus…
and a surplus I'll pay for with management and an Angry Minute.



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