[slodave]

My plan to screw L.A. out of some fix-it ticket fines almost backfired today. I waited until the last minute, so I spent the day at the Chatsworth courthouse, in line. Finally getting up to the counter, I handed my paperwork to the clerk and she asked if I had a "certificate of compliance". Uh, no, I just got the ticket signed off by a deputy in a parking lot. "Well, you need to get a cert.". Okay, how? "Go across the hall to the Sheriff's office and she'll give you one. Just come to the front of the line when you are done". Okay.... Walking... Across the hall... I need a cert. "Where did you get this signed?" In a parking lot. "That's not going to work. You need to bring the car here to get it signed off". Uh, that's not easy to do and this ticket is due tomorrow. "Well, you need to do that.". Okay... F! What am I going to do?? There are deputies at the front entrance, so I asked one about the cert. She told me to go to the office I just came from. I tell her I just got kicked out of there and needed to get the car signed off - again. She says "What???" Let me se the ticket. Asks where I got it signed off. Tell her in a parking lot at Taft HS. She tells me she'll be right back. Comes back and hands me the ticket, signed off again. I tell her thanks and off to the Sheriff's office again.. Lady see's it and says okay. That'll be $17 for the cert. Damn!!! Fine $25, sign-off, $17. Oh well. At least I didn't have to drag the 911 down to the court.