I just got really motivated and decided to clean up. As a part of this, I decided to go out and clean out the glovebox of the Suburban - it’s been more or less parked in one spot since I got my new car.
I knew I had earned a lot of parking tickets in the Suburban for parking in handicapped spaces, parking in spaces that weren’t parking spots at all, etc. These heinous violations came at a cost of $100/ea. It got to a point last Fall where I would just throw the tickets in the trash immediately.
To make a long story short, I found a ticket from last June that indicated it was my 14th violation. I didn’t even know they kept a tally since I’d never bothered to examine any of the tickets in much detail. Of course, I didn’t pay a single one. But damn…14 tickets and that was the point where my glovebox was too full of tickets to even bother keeping them anymore.
To further add to this, these are only the tickets I acquired from mid-2006 onwards. I had a different car before which got at least as many tickets if not even more. I probably owe more in tickets than the sum of the Blue Book values for these two vehicles.
Before anyone starts seeing if there’s a reward for my arrest that they can cash in on, let me clear this up by saying these are tickets issued by The University of Missouri and my Suburban is officially registered to my grandparents, who are no longer in this sphere of existence. I think it’s going to be OK to discard them all, which is what I’m doing.
