The Date Is Set

Thursday, October 20, 2005, at 06:52AM

By Eric Richardson

If you've followed my bicycling ticket and the subsequent wonder I had at all the penalties that get added onto a simple fine, you may be interested to know that I have now scheduled a court date. It is -- drumroll please -- January 13th, 2006, at 8am. That was, apparently, the first date at which the computer could schedule me in.

When you select the court date option you're asked for a time preference -- AM, PM, Night Court, or No Preference. I selected AM, an after thinking about it for a bit the computer told me no dates were available that met my criteria. It also gave me no options for "Ok, try no preference" so I had to start the search by ticket process all over again. This time I selected No Preference and it gave me an 8am time. Go figure.