This is all kind of embarassing and I don’t entirely understand how I let this thing get to this point but: this past February I was visiting my aunt who lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and I got a speeding ticket, on my way home to the east coast, for doing exactly what I was doing, which was driving 83 mph in a 65 mph zone. I never paid the ticket. I should have paid the ticket, I meant to pay the ticket but I just didn’t ever pay the ticket, due to my own irresponsibility, air-headedness and disorganization.

I am now back in Ohio, in Cleveland Heights for the Thanksgiving holiday. I will be here at least until Monday. I really want to take care of this ticket while I’m here because of all the reasons a person in my position would want to take care of the ticket: it’s the right thing to do, I owe the fine and because I am almost certain that there is a warrant out for my arrest in the State of Ohio and all that is really stressing me out.

The big problem is that I lost the ticket. I was pulled over either on 80 or 76, about an hour or so, more or less, southeast of Cleveland Heights so I’m pretty sure it was the Ohio Turnpike, it was the State Police who issued the ticket. The violation occurred in one of two counties but traffic tickets are paid through the municipal courts, I think. And there are a lot of municipal courts in those two counties. How do I find out, without the ticket, it’s lost, what court I would need to go to to take care of this? Or is there someway to do it, some other location where I can pay a ticket in Ohio, without having to go to that one particular municipal court?

So that is where I am; that is point A. I want to know how to move forward from point A to getting this thing taken care of. I, please, don’t need anyone to tell me what I should have done at points  -A, -B or -C, thank you, I just want to get this done and over with.