Case dismissed

My wife was in a car accident about a month ago. No one was hurt at all, except for the cars needing some repair. Fortunately, we have auto insurance. Amazingly, the other guy had insurance too! Wow!!


The policeman that arrived on the scene wrote him a citation for hitting her, and wrote her a citation for crossing the double-white line while she was exiting the freeway. People cross the double-white lines all the time. You're not supposed to. He wasn't really sure that she HAD crossed it, and, of course, she denied that she had.


At the scene, the cop told her that he NEVER went to court, so all she would really have to do is show up and the judge would dismiss the case, since this cop never showed up. Ok. She figured she'd show up on July 26. It probably didn't hurt that she was wearing a low-cut blouse that day with her tits all high and perky. (Hey, at least he didn't shove her into his police car and rape her.)


Rather than just pay the fine, you can go to court to contest it. So yesterday she goes to court. Or tries to.


Before you get to court, you have to park. (This is Houston, after all. We don't put too much stock in mass transit 'round these parts.) Naturally, the lot by the court was full, so the overflow goes to private lots. She got charged $10 to park, a rather outrageous amount down hyar.


When she gets inside, the clerk could not find her name on the list. She had fingernails about six inches long. While she was looking, she kicked the cable under her computer and knocked out all the computers in her area. It takes 10 minutes to boot everyone back up.


Then she discovers, "Oh, your case was dismissed on July 10."


"Well, why wasn't I notified so that I wouldn't show up today?" my wife asked, reasonably.


"You're supposed to get a letter," said the clerk.


"I haven't gotten a letter," my wife replies.


So she didn't have to show up at all and pay $10 just to be told that she didn't need to show up. Ah, the bureaucracy.


Looking on the bright side, there will be no black mark on her driving record for this. The whole incident cost $10. Well, that, plus the insurance company hitting us for the $300 deductible to get the car fixed. And it's still in the shop, so we have a rental. Our insurance covers up to $25/day for a rental, but try and find a decent-sized car for $25/day. So, we're paying an extra $10/day for a mid-sized car.


So, $10 for the parking. $300 deductible. And $10/day for the rental, and we will have the car for about 30 days, so another $300.


But no one was hurt, so we can look on the bright side.


Don't cross the double-whites.