are you a) broke as a joke or b) clocking crazy dollars?

sorry Jess - i've been there. trust me on this: Sell out!

Obviously j.lu you are hoping to work here.

I am not exactly clocking the crazy cash YET, but in 10 mos. when my contract runs out I will

1. Have a TS clearance still
2. Know how turn computers on and off, and write documents

which is PlainSpeech for MAD SCRILLA NABBIN BABY.

WORD A HEY.

it adds up!

My job is too stressful to pay so pitifully. :(

Damn fukcingn right. Broke as a joke here, I'm afraid.

There's broke and then there's broke; rate your poverty...have you:

1) Dumpster-dived?

2) For Food?

3) Shoplifted out of hunger?

4) Sold plasma for food/shelter/clinic visit?

5) Asked for 'pulls' in the produce isle?

6) Lived in a garage or on a friend's couch?

7) Lived in a vehicle?

8) Lived in a shelter?

9) Lived under a bridge/overpass or in an abandoned/condemned structure?

10) Collected cans for several hours a day?

11) Pan-handled/busked?

12) Honestly considered prostitution or incarceration as alternative means of income/security?

13) Practiced prostitution/intentional-incarceration?

1) Dumpster-dived?

Yes, & will still do it if I find a dumpster (UK="skip") usually for firewood. Will frequently (in winter months) collect wood from broken fences for firewood.

2) For Food?

No, but have discovered that if u go into supermarket 10 mins b4 closing time, they sell all thee bread off for 10p per loaf.

3) Shoplifted out of hunger?

no

4) Sold plasma for food/shelter/clinic visit?

no

5) Asked for 'pulls' in the produce isle?

No, if this means what I think it means. I always check the damaged produce shelf tho, & will buy damaged cans, boxen etc in preference to undamaged.

6) Lived in a garage or on a friend's couch?

couch yes garage no.

7) Lived in a vehicle?

no.

8) Lived in a shelter?

no

9) Lived under a bridge/overpass or in an abandoned/condemned structure?

no, but copped out of paying any rent (by ahem disappearing/midnight flit) after living in unsafe & disgusting flat

10) Collected cans for several hours a day?

option has never been available

11) Pan-handled/busked?

no.

12) Honestly considered prostitution or incarceration as alternative means of income/security?

the former yes, the latter no

13) Practiced prostitution/intentional-incarceration?

no.

So I hang out w/a crazy old lady & we're both really poor and basically sociopaths. C'est la vie.

I have a dizzying amount of money in my current account at the mo, but it's all earmarked for one thing and another, and when it's gone I shall be somewhat impecunious for a month or two.

Man last month I was ballin out of control with the refund check and the stimulus check and a scholarship reward check and graduation money and an emergency fund I set up through ING.

Then I got hit with $500 in tickets and $2280 in fines.

Now I'm broke (as in like bank account is in single digits for the first time since my lean days) and nearly $3k in debt on top of my monthly car payment and increased summer energy bill and rising gas prices and jesus strike me down cause it'd be easier.

sorry HOOS

what's the tix/fines for

Broke but not as a joke, its serious yo. I'll be clocking crazy pounds tomorrow tho, hit me on the payside yeah! I always freak out about money but then I get mad paper suddenly just when I truly need it and not just coz I have a shoe fix that I need.
I really can't talk about money and be 'street' and English at the same time. FAIL.
Shame Hoos, I second mookie's question, I know a coupla decent lawyers (don't ask) if you want some advice.

It's a long story, but in essence:

-Summer 06 I was pulled over for an expired registration. I was insured, but I didn't have my most current insurance card on me. I was ticketed for driving without insurance. A week later I was pulled over again because I hadn't had the time to renew the registration yet. I didn't have the first ticket on my person, so I was ticketed a second time for driving without insurance. The fine for each of those stops is $250/year for the next 3 years.

-Texas law says that being ticketed twice for driving without insurance is cause for your license to be suspended. I didn't get any notification because the city had the wrong address on file for me. When I was stopped for speeding (doin 55 in a 54, if you will), the officer told me (much to my shock) that I was driving with a suspended license. I paid the $300 fine on that ticket, then started the process of renewing my license today. $250 in fees, plus another set of $250/year for the next three years.

-Oh and I got stopped again last night. I've been having the gf drive me places to be on the safe side, but we made a 1 am Denny's run and I figured we'd be fine. On the way back my girlfriend saw a possum dart across the road and wanted to get a closer look. 1:30 am, no one around in the residential area, so I made a U to go back. Motorcycle cop parked under a tree in the dark in a residential area at 1:30 am, fuck you. Got ticketed a second time for driving with a suspended license, another $300.

So all told it's $2800 in fines.

I'd be clocking crazy dollars if I didn't live in London with a wife who's too sick to work and ineligible for the dole. As it is I'm getting by OK but have no money to spend on stupidly expensive punk singles.

xpost yikes hoos :(

fuck

at any rate, i am not quite either. my dollars almost exactly pay the rent, but fail to cover my drinking habit.

Mookie I feel like this every fucking day.
Anyways Hoos...this is mostly American legal stuff (so I can only give vague answers till I speak to my friend) but the fact that they didn't give you proper warning and the city getting the wrong address is stuff you can pull up. I wouldn't just take it, these are big fines and if they've messed up by not notifying you properly then you should at least be able to drop one of the fines (maybe the first suspended licence one?) and have extra time given within which to pay. There's bound to be a loophole for the other two and have you double checked the statements they gave you? Is every i dotted? Because even silly procedural stuff on that shit can help you out.
I'm not as versed on US law but I'll get back to you when I get in touch with my mate, this seems all a little too silly. The possum story if you don't mind me saying tho, is jokes.

dayum, my DWI didn't cost me that much

Never heard of the insurance thing - when I get pulled over without my insurance card (which is pretty much a yearly thing), it's a $10 fee to have it dismissed when I bring in proof of insurance.

^^^Exactly. Something in the milk ain't clean Hoos.

TEXAS

?

Well, it has to be dismissed within a certain period (two weeks, a month, usually). If HOOS let it go to warrant he's SOL.

And I don't know if it's a state thing or just the North Texas communities that routinely ticket my ass who let you get it dismissed easily.

when I get pulled over without my insurance card (which is pretty much a yearly thing), it's a $10 fee to have it dismissed when I bring in proof of insurance.

-- milo z, Saturday, July 12, 2008 1:26 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

same here, but i was too young n dumb to know that two summers ago

wtf hoos when did you catch Remy's luck

its like damn son

I was stopped recently for running a red light, and the cop totally made no big deal that I didn't have my current insurance card with me.

My insurance went up about $200/month with that driving w/suspended license conviction, and my (now paid off) monthly credit card payment was supposed to go towards that, but instead it's gonna be goin towards these bullshit fines for the next 3 years.

so yeah as i told j0 a bit ago i basically want to skullfuck debt right now

my electric bill and car payment were due today and i can either pay them or pay off the rent that i put on my credit card

which btw was late because the gf's job fucked up her paycheck so we didn't even get that in til we had a $150 late fee attached

would be a nice skullfuck

debt is a cunt

We just signed lease on a new place, and I just bought a fancy new fridge, but I even tho we both clock decent dollars, I'll be broke for a while cause I borrowed off the parents to meet the bond/rent/moving costs, so I'll be paying them back for at least 6 months, plus paying off a ridiculous credit card debt of about 6k (stupid computer buying lust), but hey I manage ok, and now have a lovely new house to move into so I'm good.

It always scares me though how all this hinges on one's employment: I got nothing in savings, so if either of us lose our jobs we're instantly thrown into a scary position which is what happened late last year for a short while. I really need to start budgeting better and saving a slush fund for emergencies again.

so far into a) it's unbelievable

I've got a broke mentality.

Even though I'm now earning good money, I always feel like it could be taken away at any moment, and have really bad nerves about making any major expenditure.

I owe plenty of money.

I act like I don't.

Hey, at least I managed to escape the jaws of student loan quicksand.

Who gives a fuck?

bobsix: thats exactly how I feel! Always like thr debt monster is hovering behind me, eager to eat me alive if I lose my job or land a major debt like hospital or theft or some crap. I worry too much.

joke.

i feel so silly too cuz all my friends wanna plan this vegas trip, for a bachelorette party, and i'm the shmo with no dough.

12

right

doing ok but this trip which was supposed to be like dirt cheap cuz my flight was paid for & first week's hotel paid for too... well... it is gonna cost me a lot more than i'd 'ticipated.

The fine for each of those stops is $250/year for the next 3 years.

wait, how is this even possible? they're fining you in the future??

never mind, just googled it, WTF

As of Sept. 1, 2003, certain offenses carry an automatic surcharge for three years, including DWI-related offenses, no insurance, driving while license suspended and driving without a license. For example, the fee for a first-time DWI offender is $1,000 per year for three years.

Fuck, I'll remember this next time I go to El Paso. I'll remember: don't go to El Paso; Texas laws are harsh shit.

I owe a frankly terrifying amount of money, it's not even funny.

I have a house and a business, in theory I'll be Croesus in a few years.

Now, brrrrr

goddamn I'm broke. it would be great if my yearly salary increase kept up with inflation but it doesn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flESd2vFXy4&feature=related

"broke as a joke" does not even begin to describe it. they need to bring back dickensian debtors prisons and put me out of my misery.

on the other hand, this sandwich is delicious, so into every life a little sunshine must fall.

xp

Seems unlikely that The Rakes video influence on the Blackout Crew was anything but inadvertent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcIommZjMSE

slowly depleting, minimal income