I see you have mastered the copy and paste feature (to what end--I am still uncertain).

Try to follow--and I will make an attempt at breaking it down into smaller thoughts for you. Ready?

You said, "I am not a dangerous ....person." I replied for you to explain to me how your getting behind the wheel of a car drunk qualifies you to bear the title of 'not dangerous'. How is that "not dangerous" behavior? You made the assertion you are "not a dangerous.....person". If drinking and driving is not dangerous, I invite you explain your definition of dangerous self centered behavior.

In any regard, I am not certain that calling you dangerous and self centered reflects on your character as much as it does your actions. If I were to reflect on your character, I'd call you immoral, stupid, and a host of adjectives. I thought I was exercising a great deal of discretion restricting my comments to those relevant to the crime in question-drunk driving---->DANGEROUS and SELF CENTERED.

Regardless, your opinion of me matters as little to me as my opinion of your dangerous and illegal behavior should mean to you. If you think I am judgmental, wait until you meet the steely eyed judge. (Whoa, dude, a Kodak moment for sure.)

I need to beg your forgiveness---I am afraid I missed the part of my posting where I indicated even a cursory interest in your opinion of my postings (i.e. immature)? You are an aficionado of message board etiquette, but haven't the sense not to risk the lives of countless men, women, and children, not to mention property, because YOU want to behave in a lawless manner. Being sarcastic is immature, but taking the lives and property of innocent people into your hands is a remarkable act of maturity?? My dear misguided one, I hardly think you are a capable judge of what is mature, acceptable, or lawful.

You say "decisions" as though you were deciding what shoes to wear---you made a willful and deliberate choice----which is hardly parallel to "What shoes shall I wear today?" You make it seem as though what you have done is like going the wrong way in a "one way" grocery store parking lot. "Oh, sorry---I slipped up and went DOWN the UP arrow"--oopsie--like a moment of thoughtless behavior. That is the distinction between "choice" and "decision making". It is obvious from your words that you don't realize your actions were DELIBERATE and not just "oops" --a poor decision--gosh darn it---how did THAT happen?? The emphasis was on the usage of the word---and the implications attached to the same.

I won't bother to explain how sitting in a jail cell doesn't exactly meet my definition of "ostracized from the world"----being ostracized from someone or something is when you are consciously rejected----if you are in a jail cell, you aren't IN the community and you are not facing rejection. To me being ostracized is like the proverbial scarlet letter---at no time did I suggest you should be marked, or branded or singled out----I feel you should go to jail , serve your time AND THEN I believe you should be viewed no differently from anyone else. You did your crime, you did your time---its a wash. At no time did I wish for society to scorn you or ridicule you. That, dear, was something YOU inserted into my posting.

SR-22 IS something those of us that drive safely and have never hurt anyone else are thankful for. It keeps people like you from being able to afford to drive. That isn't intended to make you feel badly, it is intended to keep people like ME safe. You being ordered to carry SR-22 isn't an attempt at hurting your feelings, although it made me chuckle you would think so.


The only "new" thing you added to your posting was to assert that somehow you should be afforded payment plans for your CRIME because, if not, you would go to jail and the taxpayer has to pay ( proud look ). There now--isn't THAT an interesting legal premise? Unfortunately, courts aren't in the business of financing---and what do community service programs have to do with you paying your fine? If you are ordered to do community service in lieu of a fine, that isn't the court financing your penalty. The judge doesn't look down at you and say, "Awww, if she goes to jail, she will lose her job. Poor thing--here, honey, do a little community service for Uncle Judgie....there, there, now...Don't cry. You won't lose your job. Want to borrow twenty?" <pfftttt>

Let me simplify it for you--a dead beat parent who doesn't pay child support---guess what? He or she goes to jail. The judge doesn't say, "Whoa, if we put him/her in jail, then they can't work and can't pay child support, and the tax payer will have to pay---ergo--we better not put him/her in jail!!" Obviously, deadbeat parents are sentenced to jail all the time and their "ability to pay" is irrelevant. Try to make the parallel to your situation.

Amazing all the thought you are giving to your "options" related to getting out of what you have done, yet, you gave no thought whatsoever to your actions of that night. You are indeed a model of maturity, restraint, and good judgment. I bow before your incredible--albeit sodden, example.

While I have seen traffic tickets given 30 days or 45 days to pay if the defendant can at least pay some at the time of their ticket (court date), I have also seen the same court rooms with different judges refuse to do the same.

Bottom line: YOU are financially responsible for a great deal of money for car repairs, fines, insurance premiums, etc. Your idea that somehow you should be granted some kind of a dispensation is offensive and--well, immature---you clearly again indicate you have no idea of the magnitude of what you have done. Of course, your "toast" at the end of the posting did more than I ever could to display your ignorance, arrogance, and disinterest in the crime you have willfully committed.

I will end my posting with a quote everyone reading these postings can read: "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

You, unfortunately, appear to be in possession of a great measure of both.