The Dude Abides

Alcohol education classes are no fun. Why do I have to go to them? It's because I got busted for drinking while fishing. I had to serve a night in jail, had 3 court dates and one hearing with the DMV, and after getting my paperwork lost and confused on two different occasions, and almost sending me to jail for it both times, I am now sentenced to alchol education and therapy until September. This is all because I did not turn my lights on immediately when the sun set, and a ranger got mad and called the cops. Man, talk about getting fucked. There was no accident, no swirving, no public nuisance. Just me and my friends sitting on the dock after a long day of fishing, and a ranger who is bored. Now I am paying dearly. I have lost so much faith in our legal system it almost hurts. I can understand why drinking in a boat could be dangerous, but to sentence me to more punishment than most DUI drivers get, for driving a very small fishing boat about 1 mph, something is not right. Somebody is not trying to provide justice. Somebody is turning a blind eye to what's right and wrong, instead only to follow the cryptic language of a law to the letter, without any consideration to what happened. Ugh, I guess I can believe it. Look at our laws against marajuana. Silly really.

Ok, I did it. I wrote again. Still nobody reads. That's ok, I would skip over my blog too. But if anybody does read this some day, take comfort in the fact that you may learn something, anything, along the way.