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Last week, I am Christmas shopping with my sister and a state marshal calls my cell. According to him the last 2 months of my court payments haven’t been made, I am no longer in compliance with the state of Arizona and a court hearing has been set for Tuesday morning. I ask him how I should go about handling this and he tells me if I pay the amount owed I don’t have to show up. If I don’t make the payment then a warrant will be issued and he will come and “detain” me. When hearing this my first thought is “OK bud… well you gotta find my ass first!” But since I’m now sober and reformed I just tell him “yes sir. well I guess I’ll just go ahead and make that payment today then!”
So I call the Clerk of Superior’s office to make the payment but she doesn’t pick up. No big deal I’ll call Monday bright and early. Sunday night my attorney calls me, says he just found out that I got to be in court by 9am on Monday. The courthouse is in Phoenix 140 miles away and plus I have to work in the morning. I’m trying to figure out what the consequences would be of me not showing up with him. He says that he wouldn’t be comfortable going in there without me unless I pay the remainder of my fine in full or else run the risk of a warrant being issued. Well that’s $1300 that I don’t have.
I’m sitting in the B2B office with Roy as all of this is happening and he’s helping me try to figure out what my options are. The usual options that I could’ve used were not ones I wanted to exercise. Roy said he would be willing to help by loaning me the money and setting me up with a payment plan. At first I didn’t really want to take it, I’m already up to my neck in debt and have never been comfortable with having any personal debts whatsoever. But I took him up on his offer and I am incredibly grateful for his willingness to lend me a helping hand. If there is a moral to this experience I would have to say it is that since getting sober, when circumstances like this arise I have people in my corner who are willing to help me through them.