Have you ever used your ATM/Credit Card and get charged what they call a convenience fee? Now most of the time, I don’t mind it because it’s a privileged to use a certain service and they usually only charge a small fee. For the last year I am always charged that when paying Blade’s fine from being falsely accused of something he did not do, and yet because again legal aide wouldn’t help him, and we couldn’t afford a private attorney, he plead guilty and took a year’s probation. Which we later found out that someone he thought was a friend, and helped them move said a piece of drug paraphernalia was his. He didn’t even realize he had touched said paraphernalia but he did tell me after he thought about it, he may have touched it, but since it had his fingerprints they said it was his. Since then too he no longer helps just about anyone with moving, because like him and I talked about. Never know when someone will say it’s “Yours” when they know it’s really theirs. Plus there is the fact that the stigma about all Black people know drug dealers, and users. Which to be honest he does know a lot of people, but that doesn’t mean he knows the dealers and users per-say. Undercover officers also claimed to have him going in and out of the apartment they were watching, but then again he didn’t deny it because he was helping them to move after all as well. So that would make sense because he was helping them move to a new place. Ironically though after they said it was his, they no longer called him , or would they answer his phone calls. So to us that made sense they would do that because part of them felt guilty.

In the image I have stricken out his real name, but this is what a fine for taking a plea deal and just deal with it. Now they did offer him a deal that he refused flat out, and I just couldn’t believe they thought he would become a snitch. That was their plea deal. They would make the sure the probation went away with this hefty fine that we are paying each month. So for each month that I make a payment of $50.00 US or $100.00 US, I am charged an additional $2.75 for a convenience fee of using my own ATM/Debit card for his fine. So each month I have to make sure that this fine is in our bill budget, because that is how I see this. Since 2013, we have paid our county a wonderful amount of $2,115.00 US, which could have gotten us a lot of stuff for our apartment, dog, and possibly even nice upgrades or even a new PC Build for me. I’m not complaining about this because in the long run, it keeps him out of our county jail. I went through that a few years ago, where he was in county for a few nights over the weekend. I don’t want to see him in County again, because for some people they don’t do well in County, and he is one of those people. While some will make a life of living in a correctional facility and don’t know how to function outside of it. He is not one of these people.

But this is also why I became a true budget gamer and started working on ways to get the games I want but at an affordable price. In the 6 years we’ve been together we have only had maybe a year off from having to pay fines and be pulled into B.S. as I call it. I had a fine as well and we paid that off, but lucky for me, I didn’t have to make a visit to our County Jail because I caught it before they issued a warrant for me. Lucky enough I live off the grid so to speak so finding me is nearly impossible for them, even though for a small amount of money you can do a U.S. Search, or go to a local post office and ask them if they know the last known address of someone. Even though I’m not sure that is still a feasible option anymore. Even the DMV could have given them that information, but it’s not going to happen anymore because my fine was paid off, and I haven’t given them any reason to pull me in for anything else. As some may say, “Goodie Two Shoes”, because I don’t do anything to bring attention to myself, nor do I get in trouble. Then again with Mental Health, they’d likely put me in another place that I don’t want to go near. Once in a while we will play the daily lottery and hope we can win some money that we could put down on his fine and get it even lower. At this rate we will still be paying for that fine until next year. We sat down and figured out that at $50.00 US a month , sometimes $100.00 US a month, we are looking at possibly next year having this fine paid off. So who ever said “Crime pays”, no it does not pay because in the long run, it can only get more costly and cause more headaches then it’s truly worth. I just wanted to share on why I said I have to readjust our budget monthly because this is something we need to keep paid to keep him out of jail.

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