to a wall!
Now I am not perfect, five years ago I got a DUI. I was wrong. Wrong. Wrong. And then wrong some more! I did everything the court asked and then some. Cost me, as it should have, thousands and thousands of dollars.
Thought it was behind me.
I was going to see Batman tonight and got pulled over. 67 in a 55. Mind you pulled over by a police officer in my little town. It went down hill from there.
We did the whole exchange information thing.
When he came back towards my car, as another cruiser pulled up, his gun was at his side. I got worried. The next thing I know I am kissing the face of the trunk of my car. Cuffs on. Told I am driving on a revoked license. Going to jail.
I live in a town of 5,000 people. The jail in my town is only a little bigger then a walk in closet. I was cuffed and at a point started to beg. Cuffed to the freaking wall for several hours.
I said things like "I got all the court papers, this is a mistake. Take me to my house, it is only five blocks away. This is wrong. This is a mistake."
They laughed at me.
I asked what the bond was. $300 I was told. I said I only have $180 with me, but take me, and when I say next door I mean literally next door and I will give you the rest from the ATM. Again, they laughed at me.
I said I wanted to blow. I had three drinks with dinner, and as time went on that was coming up on many hours ago.
They didn't let me blow. They gave me a field test, handcuffed. Told me I failed.
I said I want my phone call. They wouldn't give me my cell, which has all my numbers in it. Heck, off the top of the head I don't even know my own phone number to be honest. They said sorry, not an option.
I called a few times, thinking I was getting my parents or my brother. Alas the numbers were wrong.
They laughed at me some more.
They eventually let me use a phone in an office. I really think the phone they were letting me use before didn't even really work. I got a hold of my brother.
He said, "dude, on the way."
I think it was at that point, when somebody I loved knew where I was, I said something along the lines of "I will rain down a world of hurt on you people. You got that sign that says you tape everything, great, we'll have that in court won't we."
A terrible, I mean a terrible night .....