What happens when you do not pay your traffic citation ?

If you are not drunk and if you are not being psyched up by other passengers in the car, but still like to go fast, weave across the lanes or startle the old man driving in front of you, you inadvertently must be a crazy bum to get a ticket in the first place.

That’s all right. There are definitely a number of crazy bums out there. But the universe must be conspiring against you, probably the result of a planetary alignment that occurs only once in 8.2×10^46 years, when Mr. Policeman decides to give you a ticket and conveniently forgets to put the name of the court or the phone number of the clerk on the backside.

Yet, in this age of the Internet, you still have got the resources to pull up where to pay the citation and how to pay it up. Oh crap! Wait buddy… Did you not forget that the universe was conspiring against you. Now, this planetary alignment tends not to just have a gravitational imbalance on the tides at sea but the gray matter in your head that you decide you will let things be and not hurry about them. Afterall, you are born in India, where you believe in the karmic sentiments of the soul within you and let things take their own course.

So, you do not pay the fine and wait to be served notices or summons or whatsoever. Afterall, you need to show the Americans what the karmic philosophy of the Indian is.

So, finally you get a notice saying that your license will be revoked in 20 days from the date of notice if you do not pay up in the meantime. And heavens (Alrightyyy, there are not in the alignment any more), that notice was served 25 days back.

So, you sit with the ticket in your left hand, the notice in your right, wondering in that head of yours what would have happened if you had dealt matters the usual desi way and payed up immediately after the trip. But hey, I ( yes, it was my own experience, how else did you think I would not everything in such excruciatingly intricate detail) am gratified at the prospect of being the first desi among all I know who had their license revoked for not paying the fine on the citation – the true indian way. 

Thanks to Lord Venkateswera of Pittsburg. Mera Bharat Mahaan.