I got a ticket for speeding a while back, and I neatly crammed it into my school bag and promptly put it out of my mind because speeding tickets are a drag. I remember looking at the court date on the ticket right when I got it, and committing to memory that I needed to be there at 1:00 PM on April 28. So Monday, April 26, I take it out so that I can fill out the request for deferred adjudication and mail it in, and I realize that my court date was actually April 24th. OH. OKAY. So I missed my court date... don't they issue bench warrants for that sort of thing? YES, they do. So I am panicking and freaking out sitting in my 5:30 class wondering wtf I am going to do because now I am a fugitive. (Granted, a really lame fugitive, but a fugitive nonetheless.) It turns out that all I had to do was go to the courthouse that evening before 9:00 PM and wait two hours to see the annex judge for all of 2.5 minutes and VOILA! problem solved. Now I have to take defensive driving by such and such date in July. Seeing the annex judge was actually preferable to regular court, maybe I will just miss my court dates from now on. Or not get tickets. Whatever.
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