Hey ya'll. I need to vent and ask for good thoughts to be sent up for me and my ordeal with the courts today.

On Christmas Eve, I got a parking ticket on an old car that a friend is fixing up to sell. It was parked on the curb next to his house, no fire hydrants, safe distance from a stop sign. No warnings whatever were ever issued. We promptly moved the car.

I have a hearing scheduled today to fight the $150 they want me to pay. I'm spending my last $6 dollars that I was saving to do laundry to park downtown. I was hoping to get the parking validated, but they don't validate parking to go to the courts.

I am so angry because I am so powerless over my financial situation. I don't want want to give my last $6 to the parking vultures. And what if there are court fees they want me to pay for this hearing? And what if the judge says "Screw you, you should have known, give us our money?" Can they hold you in contempt if you can't pay court fees? I know that's an irrational fear but I'm so upset at this ordeal. I'm not allowed to get hot with MS and I've gotta go trudge around downtown in 85 degree weather. I wish I was rich. I'd just have my laywers and bankers take care of this for me while I sipped iced tea by the swimming pool in the bahamas.

I am just so full of resentment and anger over all of this. The poor get poorer. Thats just how it seems to work. Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh........thanks for letting me vent.