It is like a great weight has been lifted from my shoulders. I have never felt so lucky and grateful to God.
I went to court tonight to see about my citation. I was so extremely nervous!! I needed to cry and/or throw up and I think the only reason I didn’t is because I couldn’t decide which I needed to do more. There were a LOT of people, which partly helped and partly didn’t. I was almost last which was very helpful. I was more bored than scared by the time he got to me.
“LS… you are charged with no insurance. How do you plead?”
Me. Very timidly and stumbling to get to the front: “N-no contest, your honor.”
Judge: “Well… have you gotten insurance?”
And my mom steps in.
I feel like such a loser for having my mom with me. I’m 19 years old for jeez sakes. But I think she really helped. She proceeded to tell a long sob story about our insurance, and ended with the speech that sounds vaguely like a resume, about how I’m an honor student and I got this big scholarship to NSU, and how wonderful I was. The whole time I’m nudging her arm, yeah… like that’ll get her to stop. I think it just egged her on more. My face HAD to have turned 15 shades of red. The judge even leaned towards me and whispered: “Are you embarrassed?” I, in the same timid “deer caught in headlights” voice: “Yes.”
And then I heard the magic words: “Dismissed with no cost.”
I can finally get back to life again.
Lindsey @ 9:56PM
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