Bite me.

Apparently if you live in the Unites States, you must have your car inspected once a year. For doing so, you receive a sticker to place proudly on your windshield. If you don't have a nice new sticker, the police will hate you. They will ticket you, fine you, give you an additional written warning for the illegal window tint which instructs tell you to report to the station in five days to prove the rectification of the window tint, and then tell you that you got off easy:

"The good thing about this citation is that it isn't a moving citation."

"Oh, right. Good... What?"

"That means you cannot get ticketed for the same thing more than once in this 24 hour period. So, you may continue on to where ever you were headed."

Fair enough. He got me. I honestly had no idea about the inspection being up, and the tint I was taking my chances with anyway. He's only doing his job. I understand and appreciate that.

What bothers me is that-
a: the extra fees that accompany the original fine. The fine? $25. Total after all fees added? $106.50
b: it isn't a glamorous ticket, like driving backwards at 200 mph with an endangered animal in the car within 500 feet of a record tight-rope walking attempt. Or something.
c: I can't even rag on the guy. He was very polite to me. Very nice, really. The only nasty thing I can say about him is that he has girly handwriting. I swear he's one ticket away from dotting his lower case i's with hearts.