Frivolous Jingle Request to Counter my Own Stupidity...
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 4:44 am
So this is my night so far...
Driving home from an event with coworkers, I realized I couldn't remember if I had closed a window earlier at work. The story of my life is not remembering if I locked doors or not and having to turn around. I was about 20 minutes away. I called a coworker who lives nearby to see if she was planning on going out, or to at least figure out a game plan. As soon as she answered, I saw lights in my rearview, as I had conveniently forgotten there was a hands free law in NY (I've only been here a few months, and an rarely on my phone anyhow). So I now have 5 points on my license. I work in a rather sketchy area (I've been there four months, in which there has been two shooting and a stabbing within less than a block), and going back slightly before midnight, without having the beat cop's phone number handy, seemed like a bad idea. I talked to my coworker again (this time, parked at a gas station), and we confirmed that not going back was a better/safer idea, and that she'd go over in the morning and check it out.
I know the stupid thing is open. I know it. It's a bit higher up, but maybe not immediately visible as being open, but it's open. If some punk kid wanted to climb through it, with a ladder and a little motivation, they could. Everything else is locked up.
The frivolous jingle request is because I have to overthink absolutely everything, and I've gone through every worst case scenario of what could happen, what could be taken, what could be destroyed, and that it would all be entirely my fault. Can my frivolous jingles just be that no one notices that it's open? In any other neighborhood, this would be less of a concern, but there's just been a lot of... activity around there...
As a secondary question, the cop said that I could plead not guilty, even though I told him very clearly that I knew I was on the phone (and explained my plight). He wasn't terribly sympathetic, but appreciated that I was honest about it. Apparently, in NY, you don't get a ticket or a fine - they go right to knocking points off your license. I've never really had to plead not guilty to something I knowingly did. It sort of feels like lying, but apparently that's how it goes? I feel like I have a pretty good reason - I mean, the initial "dammit, now I have to turn around take another hour out of my night to see how much of an idiot I am" and trying to balance out the whole "did I leave something unlocked?" vs. "will I be bodily injured if I go back to check?" thing... Anyone had any experience with that, particularly in NY?
(Not to sound dramatic, but the rest of the drive home involved my passenger side wheel making horrible, horrible noises; stopping to throw up because I got so far inside my head about the whole thing; taking an extra 20 minutes [after the stop] to get home because of the fog; stopping to move a turtle out of the road; and coming home to hear the squirrels, which the landlord hasn't dealt with, having a party in the walls).
Driving home from an event with coworkers, I realized I couldn't remember if I had closed a window earlier at work. The story of my life is not remembering if I locked doors or not and having to turn around. I was about 20 minutes away. I called a coworker who lives nearby to see if she was planning on going out, or to at least figure out a game plan. As soon as she answered, I saw lights in my rearview, as I had conveniently forgotten there was a hands free law in NY (I've only been here a few months, and an rarely on my phone anyhow). So I now have 5 points on my license. I work in a rather sketchy area (I've been there four months, in which there has been two shooting and a stabbing within less than a block), and going back slightly before midnight, without having the beat cop's phone number handy, seemed like a bad idea. I talked to my coworker again (this time, parked at a gas station), and we confirmed that not going back was a better/safer idea, and that she'd go over in the morning and check it out.
I know the stupid thing is open. I know it. It's a bit higher up, but maybe not immediately visible as being open, but it's open. If some punk kid wanted to climb through it, with a ladder and a little motivation, they could. Everything else is locked up.
The frivolous jingle request is because I have to overthink absolutely everything, and I've gone through every worst case scenario of what could happen, what could be taken, what could be destroyed, and that it would all be entirely my fault. Can my frivolous jingles just be that no one notices that it's open? In any other neighborhood, this would be less of a concern, but there's just been a lot of... activity around there...
As a secondary question, the cop said that I could plead not guilty, even though I told him very clearly that I knew I was on the phone (and explained my plight). He wasn't terribly sympathetic, but appreciated that I was honest about it. Apparently, in NY, you don't get a ticket or a fine - they go right to knocking points off your license. I've never really had to plead not guilty to something I knowingly did. It sort of feels like lying, but apparently that's how it goes? I feel like I have a pretty good reason - I mean, the initial "dammit, now I have to turn around take another hour out of my night to see how much of an idiot I am" and trying to balance out the whole "did I leave something unlocked?" vs. "will I be bodily injured if I go back to check?" thing... Anyone had any experience with that, particularly in NY?
(Not to sound dramatic, but the rest of the drive home involved my passenger side wheel making horrible, horrible noises; stopping to throw up because I got so far inside my head about the whole thing; taking an extra 20 minutes [after the stop] to get home because of the fog; stopping to move a turtle out of the road; and coming home to hear the squirrels, which the landlord hasn't dealt with, having a party in the walls).
