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  • Did these antics EVER work for you?

    I was sitting at the main desk in the traffic ticket courtroom where people who received tickets can either work something out on the charge, ask for a trial or request a reset date to do something else.
    A woman of about mid forties comes up with her ticket. She is pale skinned, about 5 foot six inches tall, maybe fifteen pounds overweight, with dark brown brown hair cut in some kind of bob. She is pretty, but her makeup is a little too much for 10:30 a.m. She is wearing white, cuffed shorts that are about half a size too tight and extend almost to her mid thigh. She also is wearing a light pink, button down shirt tucked into the shorts. A black patten leather belt, gold knot earrings, and black, high heeled sandals complete the look.
    I smile, take her ticket, and look up her file on the computer. Her charge is speeding, 90 mph in a 65 mph zone. It is NOT her first. I ask her what she would like to do today.
    She tilts her head down slightly, rolls her eyes up at me, with her head still down, she tilts it slightly to her right, gives a hint of a smile, pushes her lips out, curls the bottom lip down almost like a pout, and says in an almost baby sounding voice, “If I promise to be a good girl from now on, could you let me go with just a little swat?”
    I look at her for a moment, then respond, “You have GOT to be kidding me! Did you try that on the officer who gave you the ticket?”
    Her facial contortions cease and her expression changes to a kind of irritation before she asks to see the judge. I send her into the courtroom.
    Our judge is a very no nonsense type, and that little girl flirt act did not work on him either. He gave her the standard fine for that speed.
    She was not a happy type when she marched out.
    "Ignorance is no excuse for a law."
    .................................................. ..................- Alfred E. Newman

  • #2
    *facepalm*
    AkaiKitsune
    Sarcasm dear, sarcasm. I’m well aware that dealing with civilians in any capacity will skin your faith in humanity alive, then pickle anything that remains so as to watch it shrivel up into an immortal husk thus reminding you of how dead inside you now are.

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    • #3
      To answer your query: Not that I've witnessed.
      I'm trying to see things from your point of view, but I can't get my head that far up my keister!

      Who is John Galt?
      -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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      • #4
        Quoth taxguykarl View Post
        To answer your query: Not that I've witnessed.
        But hope springs eternal ...
        Customer service: More efficient than a Dementor's kiss
        ~ Mr Hero

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        • #5
          You should have checked to see if she used that line the last time.



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          • #6
            I used to cover court for a small weekly, and we had a judge who was fair but who took no crap from anybody. There was one case where a girl had perjured herself for her boyfriend (talk about watching too much crappy television ... "I'll be a HEROINE and lie for you!!") and some short time after HIS case was dealt with, HER case came up in front of the same judge.

            The cops had told her, nicely, that since it was a first offence, she'd likely get probation and a warning.

            The judge gave her jail time.

            She nearly passed out and even the cops were

            I'm pretty sure there was an appeal and her penalty was lightened, but the judge obviously intended to rattle her chains good.
            Customer service: More efficient than a Dementor's kiss
            ~ Mr Hero

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            • #7
              When I got my only ticket, I took it, got the money out, and paid for it. It's simple, easy, and quick -- and did it all without batting my lashes like a doe eyed crazy.
              Eh, one day I'll have something useful here. Until then, have a cookie or two.

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              • #8
                Quoth South Texan View Post
                She tilts her head down slightly, rolls her eyes up at me, with her head still down, she tilts it slightly to her right, gives a hint of a smile, pushes her lips out, curls the bottom lip down almost like a pout, and says in an almost baby sounding voice, “If I promise to be a good girl from now on, could you let me go with just a little swat?”
                Seriously?! Where'd she get that idea from, a porn movie?
                Quoth South Texan View Post
                I look at her for a moment, then respond, “You have GOT to be kidding me! Did you try that on the officer who gave you the ticket?”
                Her facial contortions cease and her expression changes to a kind of irritation before she asks to see the judge.
                Nicely done, calling her out like that! Let her know that nonsense doesn't work in real life. Kudos to the judge for giving her the same message.
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                • #9
                  I had too much self esteem to do anything like that even when I was young and cute and shapely and MIGHT have gotten away with it. (In the 1960s . . . )

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                  • #10
                    This whole thread reminds me I have some parking tickets that are becoming cumulatively quite expensive ...
                    Customer service: More efficient than a Dementor's kiss
                    ~ Mr Hero

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                    • #11
                      Not even court

                      We had an employee who acted the same way, she was shapely and young but when she tried her act on us technicians, we were too busy to waste time doing the job she was hired for.

                      She lasted three days.

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                      • #12
                        Creatures like this give us adult women a bad name.

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                        • #13
                          I am reminded of this scene in Cannonball Run.
                          "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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                          • #14
                            Quoth morgana View Post
                            Creatures like this give us adult women a bad name.
                            Except that type of behaviour doesn't qualify her as an "adult" no matter how you stretch the term.
                            Customer service: More efficient than a Dementor's kiss
                            ~ Mr Hero

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                            • #15
                              Quoth earl colby pottinger View Post
                              We had an employee who acted the same way, she was shapely and young but when she tried her act on us technicians, we were too busy to waste time doing the job she was hired for.

                              She lasted three days.
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