Now I can't sleep all day
Sep. 7th, 2006 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
constanceI got a parking ticket today, parked outside my own house. I mean, yes, I was breaking the law, though I didn't realize that having two wheels up on the edge of the sidewalk was illegal here. But! A ticket! Outside my own house! From a police force which doesn't bother to ticket speeding in school zones! O, the humanity, man.
At least I wasn't the only one on my street to get one, though; the whole length of it, you can see soggy strips of yellow carbonless paper stuck under people's windshield wipers. And there's something else, too, that makes me not care so deeply about my parking ticket which I will pay immediately because I do not want to spend another night in prison ever again, and that thing is that I HAVE A JOB. I got called for an interview from my new best friend Tori this morning, went into the office this afternoon, talked to them for 45 minutes, and within a half hour after my return home, they'd made an offer. I start Monday, can you believe it? I HAVE A JOB. Let me say it again, in case you've forgotten: I HAVE A JOB.
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At least I wasn't the only one on my street to get one, though; the whole length of it, you can see soggy strips of yellow carbonless paper stuck under people's windshield wipers. And there's something else, too, that makes me not care so deeply about my parking ticket which I will pay immediately because I do not want to spend another night in prison ever again, and that thing is that I HAVE A JOB. I got called for an interview from my new best friend Tori this morning, went into the office this afternoon, talked to them for 45 minutes, and within a half hour after my return home, they'd made an offer. I start Monday, can you believe it? I HAVE A JOB. Let me say it again, in case you've forgotten: I HAVE A JOB.
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Date: 2006-09-07 11:29 pm (UTC)Now, on to the important stuff ... did you say you'd spent a night in prison??
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Date: 2006-09-07 11:42 pm (UTC)Hahahahahahaaa! Yes, I did, the Orleans Parish Prison (The OPP, we ex-cons call it). I was arrested for unpaid traffic violations, and spent the night first chained to a staggering drunk, then in a holding cell filled with prostitutes and drug addicts (and frequently both together), and then in a cell which a shared with a seasoned old pro who held my hand through the worst bits (in exchange, she got my soap, toothpaste, and toothbrush when I got bailed out).
It was the worst night of my entire life -- but, really weirdly, everybody was incredibly nice, from the police officers to the prisoners. It was pretty clear that I was completely freaked out, in my quiet way, by the whole thing, I suppose. People kept asking if I was a teacher; it's funny, the things you remember.
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Date: 2006-09-07 11:55 pm (UTC)That is all.
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Date: 2006-09-07 11:58 pm (UTC)AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
♥ I am all better now, though. Also I pay my traffic violations, dutifully, the second I get them so that nine years later I am not arrested for them.
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Date: 2006-09-08 02:07 am (UTC)You, of all people. Wow.
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Date: 2006-09-08 02:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-08 02:59 am (UTC)What a horrible thing to go through, but it must be such a fun story to tell. I'm boggling over how out of place you must have looked amongst the standard jail throng.
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Date: 2006-09-08 12:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-08 06:03 pm (UTC)