I’ve got a day full of boring traffic stuff tomorrow as I sit through driving class to make my Virginia speeding ticket disappear. The six-hour time I spend in class will magically morph into eight hours by the time my certificate gets filled out. I don’t know how that works, but it somehow does. I’ll leave it up to the experts.
As my deadline loomed for getting this certificate back to Virginia, I began to get concerned I wouldn’t find an appropriate course. The ones North Carolina provide are only four hour courses, while my Virginny judge wants an eight hour course.
Thinking I was out of luck, I called the court clerk last week and asked for advice. I was hoping she’d clue me into some North Carolina schools she’d seen cross her desk. Though I prodded her, she politely claimed she didn’t have any names to give me.
“Certainly you’ve read some driving school names on the paperwork,” I asked incredulously.
“Well,” she finally admitted, doing everything she could to get me off the phone. “We don’t pay that much attention. We just file the certificate along with the rest of the paperwork.”
I hung up and paused for a second, amused. They don’t even read the paperwork!
No wonder there are so many stories of crooks faxing themselves right out of jail.