Wednesday - Drunk is all a state of mind
Jun. 22nd, 2005 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninanevermoreThis week on my morning commute, I've noticed dozens and dozens of police cars. Local PDs, State Troopers, County Sheriffs and Constables - every flavor of cop with a jurisdiction I travel in.
I am guaranteed to get pulled over today, because I left my purse at home. This will cost me $20 in dismissal fees:
$10 - driving without a license (dismissed when I show up to courthouse with my license)
$10 - driving without proof of insurance (dismissed when I show up to courthouse with my insurance card)
I'm more concerned with the ticket I may get because my mood is always "drunk."
Oh, sure, I can pass the breathalyzer test, I can walk a strait line for 10 paces, and I can recite the alphabet backwards as far as "W" (this one is a trick - only drunk people can recite the entire alphabet backwards; sober people screw it up every time). But he will smell the drunk on my mood and write me a ticket for that. Under oath, I will have to say that, yes, my mood was drunk even though I myself may not have been.
This could lead to jail time, I just know it.
I am guaranteed to get pulled over today, because I left my purse at home. This will cost me $20 in dismissal fees:
$10 - driving without a license (dismissed when I show up to courthouse with my license)
$10 - driving without proof of insurance (dismissed when I show up to courthouse with my insurance card)
I'm more concerned with the ticket I may get because my mood is always "drunk."
Oh, sure, I can pass the breathalyzer test, I can walk a strait line for 10 paces, and I can recite the alphabet backwards as far as "W" (this one is a trick - only drunk people can recite the entire alphabet backwards; sober people screw it up every time). But he will smell the drunk on my mood and write me a ticket for that. Under oath, I will have to say that, yes, my mood was drunk even though I myself may not have been.
This could lead to jail time, I just know it.
