Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Lost Bird Falls Victum to Instant Karma
Faremount. It was a day that followed one stressful one. This reporter was just getting home from a fairly good day. The contemplation of the upcoming $2,500 bill for IT services for virus bombing the company computer was overshadowed by the success of his three fantabulous commercials written for the local "Dairy Sneeze".
It was a reading of the daily mail, which usually consists of bills and past due bills. Then, a check of the caller I.D. and phone messages, usually just telemarketers. Then, the usual strip down and a jump in a hot shower.
Shower interrupted this day by thumping at front door. I looked out the front window and there sits a Moon Valley Sheriff's Squad. I opened the front door and an old friend, deputy Chuck Longfuse smiles at me and says, "Hey, LB, I've got dis warrant here for your arrest."
Now before I go further into this story, let me just say that I used to work for the Moon Valley Sheriff's Department. And I've heard every excuse from every kind of person there is, about why they have warrants and that it was all just a screw up on Moon Valley County's part. "Sure," I'd think to myself, "maybe you should just show up for your friggin court date you friggin mow-ron!" hahahaha!
Well, there before me, printed on a form I knew well from 5 years with the department was a warrant with my name on it, stating I failed to appear in court on March 22nd. The story behind that? I went to court for an NSF check(yes, I'm not proud of that, but my divorce has really messed with finances) at the beginning of March. The other party didn't show for the court date so they postponed the hearing to March 22nd, so I asked the court if I could just pay the fine and be done with it. They said to work it out with that party. I called them and they agreed to accept payment (via cashiers check in the amount of $74.66) and call it good.
Well, it evidently wasn't good, because I received a warrant for failure to appear and went to jail for it. Thank God, girlfriend Susan Spinner came with bail money and got me out that evening.
So looking back at how Karma has worked in my life: when I weighed only 138 lbs, I used to make fun of fat people. I then gained weight and weighed in at close to 300 lbs. I did lose the weight though and went down to 225 lbs (but climbed up to 240 now). I used to have a predjudice against Asian people, (Lao and Mung especially), I worked in the hearing industry which consisted of 95% Asian (yes, Lao and Mung). A Lao co-worker, was determined to be my friend and used to buy me gifts, bring in homemade food for me and a $65 case of rice beer and called me his "brother". I used to come down on divorced couples and now I'm newly divorced.
So, it's been a bad week so far. I still can't wait to see this IT bill. I wonder if I can't write off the cigarette breaks I took with the IT tech?
It was a reading of the daily mail, which usually consists of bills and past due bills. Then, a check of the caller I.D. and phone messages, usually just telemarketers. Then, the usual strip down and a jump in a hot shower.
Shower interrupted this day by thumping at front door. I looked out the front window and there sits a Moon Valley Sheriff's Squad. I opened the front door and an old friend, deputy Chuck Longfuse smiles at me and says, "Hey, LB, I've got dis warrant here for your arrest."
Now before I go further into this story, let me just say that I used to work for the Moon Valley Sheriff's Department. And I've heard every excuse from every kind of person there is, about why they have warrants and that it was all just a screw up on Moon Valley County's part. "Sure," I'd think to myself, "maybe you should just show up for your friggin court date you friggin mow-ron!" hahahaha!
Well, there before me, printed on a form I knew well from 5 years with the department was a warrant with my name on it, stating I failed to appear in court on March 22nd. The story behind that? I went to court for an NSF check(yes, I'm not proud of that, but my divorce has really messed with finances) at the beginning of March. The other party didn't show for the court date so they postponed the hearing to March 22nd, so I asked the court if I could just pay the fine and be done with it. They said to work it out with that party. I called them and they agreed to accept payment (via cashiers check in the amount of $74.66) and call it good.
Well, it evidently wasn't good, because I received a warrant for failure to appear and went to jail for it. Thank God, girlfriend Susan Spinner came with bail money and got me out that evening.
So looking back at how Karma has worked in my life: when I weighed only 138 lbs, I used to make fun of fat people. I then gained weight and weighed in at close to 300 lbs. I did lose the weight though and went down to 225 lbs (but climbed up to 240 now). I used to have a predjudice against Asian people, (Lao and Mung especially), I worked in the hearing industry which consisted of 95% Asian (yes, Lao and Mung). A Lao co-worker, was determined to be my friend and used to buy me gifts, bring in homemade food for me and a $65 case of rice beer and called me his "brother". I used to come down on divorced couples and now I'm newly divorced.
So, it's been a bad week so far. I still can't wait to see this IT bill. I wonder if I can't write off the cigarette breaks I took with the IT tech?
