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You could just pay your fines before you drive.

Very easy for you to say maybe, not everyone has the money to pay even <$100 fines before driving to work the next day.

I guess you could just go to jail, wonder who's going to watch the kids tonight though. Also hoping the boss will understand being late the next day, processing takes a fair amount of time. I'm sure they'll understand



Yes, I'm sure we can sit around conjuring up absolute worst case scenarios where a mother of 3 was fined for unloading her kid at school, and she can't miss work again because one of her kids has a medical condition so she sometimes has to take him to the hospital, which is 200 miles away, uphill in the snow, both ways, etc.


I honestly don't think my comment was anywhere near unrealistic enough to warrant this type of response.


I honestly think it was, given the pile-on and sarcastic ending.


I'm not sure "having family obligations after working hours" or "having a job where you're expected to arrive more or less on time" are quite the absurd worst-case scenarios you envision them to be.


Sorry, if that's all the above post was trying to say, I apologize. That's just not all I read, though.




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