Well, the conversation jinxed us because on the way home we went through Emporia and Joe got pulled over for speeding.
"We start giving fines at 10 miles over the speed limit, and you just hit that mark back there," said the not-so-friendly officer.
Joe was MAD. A four lane highway, on a Sunday morning with no one around, and he gets pulled over for just hitting ten miles an hour over the speed limit. He wanted to ask the officer if the radar had been recently calibrated because he swears he was only going 5-7 miles over, but I told Joe to hush, be polite, and sign the darn ticket. While I totally agreed with him, I had no desire to get stuck in Emporia trying to raise bail for a husband who was behind bars.
As we were driving away from that cursed town we Googled speeding ticket and Emporia and read all the angry comments on Tripadvisor from travelers who had been ticketed while driving through that area. It was funny, but it wasn't.
But let me tell you what's really funny: every few days we have been getting letters from lawyers with dire warnings that a speeding ticket "can affect your insurance rates, your job, and in some extreme cases, your freedom." (This was, by the way, a direct quote from one letter.) Some mentioned jail time and court appearances. They all promised to have the lowest fees of anyone around.
Huh. One lawyer charged a flat fee of $149.
For a $124 fine.
You do the math.
Anyway, as a responsible, law-abiding citizen I realize the moral of this story should be: Don't speed. But as a responsible, law-abiding citizen let me be even more specific: Don't speed in Emporia, Virginia.
1 comment:
That's how we were tipped off to Man-Child's first speeding ticket...all the letters from lawyers!
Every time we head up north we do the speed limit throughout all the small Virginia towns.
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