It always piles on.
I can never have only a little financial difficulty. I can never just run into a small hiccup or snafu in my month-to-month living expenses. No. It has to pile on hard and it all has to pile on at once.
Some of it's my fault, most of it even. I just wish I wouldn't keep getting surprised from behind over and over and over again with X New Fine or Fee that I didn't know about because I thought things were just simpler than that in this world.
I got a civil infraction for my license plates being expired which I only got because I stopped at a yellow light one night instead of just driving on through it and got pulled over. The cop told me to re-new my license plates within 10 days and so I DID and I figured we live in a modern society and that they would put that in their computer system and it was the last I would ever have to worry about it. But no, today I wake up and my mom shoves a notice in my face saying I didn't show up at some freaking courthouse to tell them that I did what the cop told me to do and now I've got a $165 fine slapped on me which is roughly half of everything I have to my name. Much more than half if I don't count the small amount I have in my savings in preperation for the next wave of estimated taxes.
For every step I take forward I stumble two back.
Some of it's my fault, most of it even. I just wish I wouldn't keep getting surprised from behind over and over and over again with X New Fine or Fee that I didn't know about because I thought things were just simpler than that in this world.
I got a civil infraction for my license plates being expired which I only got because I stopped at a yellow light one night instead of just driving on through it and got pulled over. The cop told me to re-new my license plates within 10 days and so I DID and I figured we live in a modern society and that they would put that in their computer system and it was the last I would ever have to worry about it. But no, today I wake up and my mom shoves a notice in my face saying I didn't show up at some freaking courthouse to tell them that I did what the cop told me to do and now I've got a $165 fine slapped on me which is roughly half of everything I have to my name. Much more than half if I don't count the small amount I have in my savings in preperation for the next wave of estimated taxes.
For every step I take forward I stumble two back.