*Sigh*

A couple of months ago, a bus driver filed a report against us saying that we had passed her stopped schoolbus. We were supposed to go to court about this on January 15 but Matthew contacted a lawyer and sent in a statement about what happened. There was very little communication with the lawyer, Matthew told me he kept trying to rush him off the phone but he did say that he had received the statement and that was all we needed. I believe Matthew called him again to see if we needed to go to court, and the lawyer said no and that he would send a letter.

The letter never came.

Yesterday, at about 9:00AM the Sheriff Department called and told Matthew that there was a warrant out for his arrest and that he needed to come in and pay a $5000 bond. Matthew shakily hung up the phone after finishing his conversation and told me what had happened. Getting our hands on $5000 on a Saturday seemed improbable.

Something told me we should have gone to court that day regardless...but I ignored it.

Luckily, the lawyer's office was open on Saturday. Matthew called the office number and got a machine. So, he called another number and got in contact with the lawyer. Apparently, there had been a huge miscommunication and the lawyer didn't even remember Matthew and then told him it was because we hadn't paid to retain him. Matthew informed him very quickly that he'd never been told how to pay...just what it would cost. After a few minutes of arguing, the lawyer finally said that he'd help work it out and that we should call his assistant who should be at the office to arrange payment and then call the Sheriff Department to tell them that the lawyer would be working to recall the warrant on Monday.

Matthew called the lawyer's office and no one was there. Apparently, his assistant had forgotten her office keys and had to go home to get them. He then called the Sheriff Department and couldn't remember the name of the Deputy who'd called us. The receptionist there told him that she couldn't look up his case number. We got back in touch with the lawyer who explained about his assistant and told us who to contact in the Sheriff Department.

Finally, we got payment made to the lawyer (we are still waiting for them to send the form we were supposed to fill out saying they could represent us -- the lawyer's assistant told Matthew they were having computer problems) and told the Sheriff Department that the attorney would be working on recalling the warrant on Monday which they said was fine.

I'm still pretty worried about this. We'll see what tomorrow brings. Please send positive thoughts that it turns out okay.