u/AvailableBreakfast59

My town is putting driving cams everywhere... I mean, like, EVERYWHERE. Our main highway/loop has had "under construction" signs on it for two years, insisting all drivers go 15 mph below the speed limit, even though absolutely no road work is being done. Every camera at every light is hyper focused to the point where even if you are at the tail end of a green turn signal as it turns, you get ticketed.

Since I drive around for most of the day due to various work/child commitments, I am gaining all sorts of ridiculous tickets. Most I could probably argue successfully but I don't have the time or resources to keep going to court and the system takes full advantage of this amongst myself and my community. People will often get overdue notices about not paying for tickets that they never even received in the mail, and you can't fight back because there is never anyone available to reach out to. Some of them are absolute bunk - there isn't even a shot included of the vehicle doing the thing it is getting ticketed for.

I'm a broke single mom and I am absolutely fed up. I am a good, safe driver. Never been in an accident. If I do speed, it might be 5 mi over the limit, max.

What is the best way for a plate to be just exposed enough that you won't get pulled over but not exposed enough to constantly get ticketed over stupid crap?

I find myself saying this constantly in that whiny, slurred, drunken manner in which it was repeatedly stated. And no one gets it. It's become a habit. A tic. And so sad for me that no one has an inkling of an idea of why I say it and say it the way I do 🧐😪😅

Have you found yourself picking up any particular statement or mannerism from Deadwood that you use all the time that no one else gets?

ETA: it was just pointed out to me in the comments that this was not said by that squirrely bastard who killed Wild bill. It was by dying Andy. For some reason - I guess since it's been years since I've watched that episode - I can just hear it and see it in my mind's eye as coming from Jack McCall 😅

We have a Burmese family directly next to us. Which is awesomely cool and amazing - when they first moved in with their five kids, they cut down this huge, ancient magnolia tree that provided half of our own yard with shade. I nearly died of a heart attack - I was SO pissed.

Then they proceeded to plant an entire garden of food and herbs, siphoning water with a hose directly from the little creek out back. I was like, wow. That's what I get for being a judgmental d*ck 😅

The parents don't speak much English - mom, barely any at all. So their kids shout the f word and stuff (they are all fluent in english and attend public school) in front of adults while their parents are standing right there. Ok. Whatever. I was going to use google translate - not to embarrass or shame them, but just because if I was in that situation I'd want someone to tell me.

Then their cousins gave them a cat. It was forced to live out all winter. Then it got pregnant. My kids asked the neighbor kids if their cat had its babies yet. The kids said yes, but all the babies died because momma cat wouldn't care for them. I know it's because the five kids harass tf out of that poor animal so she was so stressed she couldn't parent. The very day that all her kittens died, the kids were pushing and pulling the freshly postpartum mama cat back and forth over their fence, picking her up by her hair/skin, etc 😭😭😭😭😭

I am now so stressed and traumatized I feel frozen. So sick to my stomach I want to throw up.

Wwyd?!?!!?

I just took the MBE free sample test and only got one question wrong. I am not a law student but I have always been interested in going into law. Could this be any indicator at all that going into law is worth pursuing for me? Of course I understand a sample quiz is completely different than an hours or days long intensely timed exam! I sought out the free test after reading a recent article about a man who managed to sit for the bar without being an actual law student because he was curious - and it was legal - and he passed at/with 75%.

I was raised from the age of four by my grandmother until she died when I was 12. She was always carrying on about wearing clean underwear. Which I get! Trust! I'm all about having clean underwear! But it wasn't until recently that I realized how freaking bizarre her thought process was.

It would go, like, "Make sure you have clean underwear! Are you wearing clean underwear??? What if there's a serious accident and you get rushed to the hospital.... and you don't have clean underwear on?!?!?"

Ummmmm.....

Grandma, I think clean underwear would be the least of my problems then... 🤔🧐😂