As you will recall, a while back I was given a ticket because some policeman decided that he couldn’t read my license plate due to rust. It was a little rusty but it could be clearly read. I decided to try to have that charge withdrawn. To do that I had to physically show up at a municipal building to make an appointment with a prosecutor. This morning I showed up for that appointment.

The paper I was given didn’t direct me to the place to go but the person who arranged the appointment for me had said “upstairs”, so I waltzed right past the intake line-up and went up the stairs. Here I found a couple of security guys who directed me to remove any metal from my pockets while they waved a wand at me. They said I should go sit down at the far end of the room, which I did.

The fact that I was given an appointment for 9:00 didn’t mean I had an appointment for 9:00. It meant that a whole bunch of people had appointments for 9:00. Fortunately, the prosecutor was fast. He powered through his appointments. He looked at the charge and asked me if I had changed the plates. I showed him the documentation along with a picture of the old license plate, which I referred to as the alleged infraction. Charge withdrawn. I was in there for about 20 seconds.

I’m happy to not have to pay the $110 fine but still irritated that I had to jump hoops to make that happen.