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Go with Goodyear

Sometimes you're a little heavy with your right foot and your mind wanders and you earn a speeding ticket. It has happened to everyone (except Stacey, of course). And it may just be that when you drive away after being ticketed, you get distracted by a cell phone call and don't see the 25-mile-an-hour zone and the police car sitting on the side of the road and get another speeding ticket.

It's not the end of the world. It might mean a huge increase in your car insurance premiums, which could upset your mother, with whom you're living; but when you tell her, somehow she understands and is not angry. Maybe she was wild when she was younger and sees some similarities.

It's been a good year. After all, you just graduated from high school, bought a cheap used car with your graduation money, got a summer job working part-time before you head off to college, opened a checking account, and bought some new clothes. What could be better? You call the court, just like the nice policeman suggested, and find out you can even pay the tickets by mail, one is only $55 and the other is $81.

The problem arises when you mail your two checks to the court without bothering to learn how to balance a checking account. And the problem gets even more serious when you don't bother to make the checks good when the court sends you a letter asking you politely to pay.

And before you go to the hearing on your bad check charges, don't call your lawyer the night before and ask if it is okay to bring your checkbook to pay your fine.

Cash only, please.

Posted by Bill at April 24, 2005 10:48 PM