I got a speeding ticket shortly after Dorothy's birthday. I mailed in the ticked with a request for a mitigation hearing, which was today in Mercer Island. The parking lot was full, which put me in an ironic situation: was I going to need to park illegally, risking a ticket, in order to go to traffic court?!? What the eff were they thinking?
Two different people there said that the parking lot usually has plenty of space, and indeed it did when I left court. So maybe my experience was a fluke. Or maybe the people who designed that building (which also contains city hall and the police department) are bastards.
Posted by Tom Nugent at April 19, 2005 03:19 PMSoooooo.....did you get out of the ticket? Don't tell me having a baby in the car is a "mitigating circumstance", because I might have to go out and rent a really tiny 8 year old to sit in a car seat from now on.
Posted by: Tom at April 19, 2005 07:14 PMDorothy was not in the car with me - I was on my back from the pharmacy, getting medicine for her.
I didn't get out of the ticket - yet. I was able to get a 'deferred finding' which means the ticket will be dropped if I don't get any other tickets for a year.
Posted by: Tom Nugent at April 19, 2005 08:11 PM