Tuesday, November 25, 2003
(10:56 PM) | Anonymous:
Bite! Bite its head off!
I suppose no one ever said life was going to be easy but I wish someone would have told me how hard it was going to be. Hayley and I are very poor, or at least poor enough that we can't pay our bills. Not that I am talking about cell phone bills or clothing costs. No, I am talking about heating, electricity and the basic needs of living in some kind of modern shelter (our internet is free). We have been doing ok by not answering the phone and leaving the bills unopened until after we are payed. We even had a plan to be caught up by the end of my winter break.
Then the wonderful City of Kankakee stepped in.
We received a ticket for not having a city parking sticker that one must have in order to park their car anywhere in the city. We didn't buy the sticker because we did not have the money and now this wonderfully stupid city ordinance has cost us 200 dollars. We were on a payment plan with the city but we had to let it fall by the wayside for a couple of weeks. This, evident now, was a very stupid decision. We were served with an order to pay the city 750 dollars for not paying our last 40 dollars of the ticket and if we are unable to pay the 750 up front they will kindly garner it from our wages. How nice of them!
Now, I realize we, even if it is a stupid law, broke the law but why does it seem that the city government exists to make more people poor in Kankakee? What kind of idiot creates a law to fine a person 750 dollars because they don't have money to pay off the rest of their ticket? Are we living in the 1700's for the love of that is holy?!?!
On top of this they have raised tuition at DePaul so I know have no extra financial aid money for living expenses. Thanks guys!
This little turn of events is very troubling and I've had to consider dropping out of school for an indeterminate amount of time in order to work off these little problems. It is just sickening that these amounts of money are so staggering to me that I may have to drop out of school and it could happen in America of all places! The terrorists have already won.
This is life I suppose. I would be able to say that in French, but I won't get that far in the course.
