RE: Dealing With the Aftermath of Homelessness: PTSD
Ugh, seriously, hex that asshole who called CPS on happy kids. CPS should only get involved in like, those cases like that one in the news about the kids who were literally being tortured - and yet they never seem to catch THOSE people, only harass parents who give a shit about their kids but aren't privileged enough. GRR.
I'm sorry about all the stress. My PTSD is for an entirely different reason, but yeah, I wish it would bugger off. I'm with you on the no money, no license too: on my 21st birthday, I had never parallel parked before. Backed into someone. Did NO damage to their car, but they called the police. The police said, well, I wouldn't report it, because you did no damage, but your friend (whose car I was driving) has no insurance.
The friend didn't even know her insurance had lapsed, because while we were in college, her parents had agreed to pay that bill for her. Her FATHER had let it lapse.
So I got cited for no insurance on a car I didn't own whose owner didn't know it had no insurance.
At age 21, that would have meant in order to get a license, I would need high risk insurance attached to non owner insurance, at an absurd cost per month I couldn't afford, to maybe borrow a car every now and then.
When it had been seven years and I thought it had fallen off my record, I went to the DMV to get a license. They said, oh no, no insurance NEVER falls off your record.
For a car I didn't own.
Now, at age 40, in order to get a license, I would need to buy six months of non owner insurance with high risk insurance attached to it in one lump (and only one carrier offers that), plus pay $100 reinstatement fee, plus all the usual permit and license costs, meaning that I need $500.
To get a license, when I've never owned a car, and the worst thing I ever did caused no damage but I didn't interrogate my friend who WOULD HAVE SHOWN ME HER CURRENT INSURANCE INFO IF I HAD ASKED, ANYWAY.
And that is why I have never had a license in my life (I had a permit at the time I backed into that person).
Amazing how poverty snowballs a minor nothing into a life-changing event.
Duuuuuuude, that is so lame! And that's exactly how it is, too! Everything is systematically set up to make life damned near impossible for the poor it makes me so damned angry.
Me, too! And apologies, I didn't mean to hijack your thread with many Epic Tale, but really, poverty makes something that would be a blip if you had money into this epic snowball. Someone said something like, fines don't make actions illegal, they make them legal for rich people only. It's so true!!
Ugh, I read a thread very simular. Talking about certain rich people seeing fines as "the cost of doing the thing".
Right? If you're rich enough, you wouldn't care about a fine.
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