Mad at the world

Well, I just got back from court. I got a ticket a few months ago and today was the date I had assigned to appear in court if I thought I was innocent. Did I mention the weather is disgusting as usual, it's frigid and I have a cold? Here's what happened. I'm driving down Summer, approaching Graham, doing the speed limit. It was that fun on and off rain Memphis is so very familiar with. I approach the light and as I'm on the lines, it turns yellow. So naturally I just went on through. I didn't even have to speed up to get through it. Anyways, I'm tooting along and almost 2 miles later I see a cop in my rear view, so I decide I need to get over so he can go on around me. Well, there's traffic in both right lanes for a while so I just got in the turning lane and he got behind me. So I pulled in to this abandoned parking lot and he proceeds to tell me I've broken the law and that I ran that red light. I say that it was yellow and of course I'm just the citizen, so I was wrong. He treated me like a real jerk, even questioned me about why I go to the college I go to instead of the one I have on my tags. (Scuse me I didn't know that was a crime) Also, treated me like an idiot for pulling to the left, God forbid I was nervous there was a cop on my butt and there was traffic all to the right of me. I literally was sobbing and begging him to let me go if he could and he tells me "No, you've broken the law." Anyways, I was bawling all the way to school and during school. So today, I brave the courthouse(funfun!!!!) to claim my innocence. Of the four people I could have pleaded my case with, I got the old fart with the corn cob up his rear who on top of it all was having a bad day obviously. He asks me if I'm guilty or innocent. I say innocent. And he proceeds to launch in to how I should have stopped. And he asks what a yellow light means, it doesn't mean speed up. I tell him that I was so far in the intersection that I didn't even have to speed up to get through it. Then he tells me I should not have been speeding. I say "I wasn't! It was raining and I would have had to slam on my brakes which means the car behind me probably would have rear ended me and I would have slid in to the intersection." So then he says, "OH! Well, if it was raining, you should have been going a lot slower!" I say, "I WAS DOING 35!!!" And he tells me I should have been going slower than that. So I think that the city of Memphis should clearly have "Regular Clear Weather Speed Limit" and then posted below that, the "If It's Raining Speed Limit". 35??? Come on now. He also tells me that he's heard all these excuses before. Anyways, I have to go to driving school for four hours, come back to court to prove I did, pay the fines, not get a ticket between now and May 16th, pay the $7 parking fee again, and once again brave the courthouse so that it won't go on my record. If I'd have known the corn cob guy's mind was already made up before I even went to court, I would have just paid the stupid fee when I got the ticket. So here I am, fuming over the fact that mine and my sister's cars can be shot up in the middle of the night, my family's shop can be broken in to and have tens of thousands stolen from it, a girl can get raped at the campus I go to all without punishment, and here I am, shackled to the law and forced to be treated like a criminal, punished to the fullest extent possible.