Dirty Ticket (June 13, 2007)

Jimmy is 23 years old.  He lives in America and he loves to watch TV.  He watches TV after work and he watches TV all day on Sundays.  He eats in front of the TV and sometimes he falls asleep watching TV.  His favorite shows are Prison Break, CSI, and 24.

Last week, he decided to buy a new flat-screen TV.  He drove to the mall and found a parking space right in front of the TV store.  He ran into the store and saw hundreds of TVs.  There were so many TVs that he had a hard time choosing one.  There were large ones, small ones, plasma TVs and LCD TVs.  After an hour, he chose one and paid for it.  He walked back to his car and saw a parking ticket on his car’s windshield.  He was very upset.  He had to pay $320 because he forgot to put money in the parking meter.

When he got home, he wrote a check for $320.  Then his dog came up to him and urinated on the floor.  He was so angry.  He used the parking ticket and the check to wipe the urine away and he put both the ticket and the check in an envelope.  He sent it to the police station.  A police officer opened the envelope and she had urine on her hands.  She had a headache and she vomited. 

Jimmy is now in big trouble.  The police may arrest him and send him to jail. Jimmy is very sorry for what he did and he has apologized many times.  The police are wondering if he is really sorry or pretending to be sorry because he doesn’t want to go to jail.