Honest Stupidity; Stupid Honesty

One fifty. Lunch money. One fifty.

One fifty pesos was the damage Jeremy had to pay for simply being honest. "Being honest" if you want it to not hurt him for what he really, really did - being stupid. But "being stupid" is also just part of the total equation. He was being stupidly honest.

Jeremy parks his car. He turned off the engine but he did not get out immediately. He was running in his head what transpired in the past thirty minutes. After running it for three times in his head, he decided to get out of the car and log in his time in. His waking up early will be useless if he does not clock in early.

So what did happen?

It is Monday. On Mondays, Jeremy makes it a point to wake up extra early. Not because he is a model employee who does not get the Monday blues but because Monday, is his coding day. That means his car should not be spotted in the areas he will be driving to work after seven in the morning. They were given an exemption sticker by their company but it is only good for just that city where their work building is situated. He still needs to pass through another strict city so he needs to be up early and away from the strict areas. Once he is in the city where he works, he can take his time. The sticker is not required to be stuck on the windshield. They can just flash it to the enforcer in case the enforcer was feeling a bit hyped to flag them down.

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He adjusted his routine already for this one. Though he has been doing it for a long time, not a morning person as he is, he still finds himself yawning and a little floating too often. What he does is he takes breakfast in a certain restaurant in one of the commercial centers nearby which serves good morning coffee along with a tasty breakfast.

Today, he decided to take his time eating the breakfast and sipping the cup of joe. He had written a lot of verses also for a poem that was stuck in his head. He has written a reflection essay just for the sake of waking his senses up. Ready to go, he drove. By this time, he was sure going to use the sticker because it is already the prohibited time. Not too far from where he ate is a traffic light. Few meters away from that is the same spot where enforcers like to hang out, or was the term "hide out" more fitting?

He was not driving too fast, he was steady and the road is pretty much car less at the time, too. The light turned to yellow and then to red but he knows he will not be able to stop the car in time. So the semi-violation happened.

The enforcer flagged him down and he pulled over. His mind was racing for some excuse or some words to get him off the hook.

He rolls down the window. And just as soon as the officer came to his side, he started apologizing for beating the red light saying he would end up stopping in the middle of the intersection even if he pressed hard. He was talking a lot.

The enforcer looked confused. He asked where Jeremy is working. Jeremy relays it. The enforcer pauses. He asks Jeremy if he has the sticker exemption. And Jeremy said yes. Then he starts apologizing again. And then it dawned on him. And he slowly stopped apologizing when he realized he was not being pulled over for beating the red light but because it is his coding day. He blinked once. Twice.

He also realized there is no way the enforcer had a visual on the changing light.

He stared blankly at the enforcer. Who was now telling him, "You are supposed to be exempted from the violation of coding but because you said you did beat the red light, I do have to write you a ticket. You'd need to settle this in the main office... "

Stunned, Jeremy took the ticket from the enforcer and stared at the paper.

He drove off the area still denying that it really happened. Still stunned. He turns on the radio to cool him down. Well, John Mayer was singing. Hah! What are the chances that the universe will put a soundtrack on your twenty-minute show however unrelated to the main story of the song?

Ever got a body part you'd like to remove given the chance?

That was one of the questions from @Eylz2021 's article.

I guess for Jeremy we know his answer.

Ever got yourself in trouble or in deeper trouble because of you and your big mouth?

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