Story

Hello, let me 1st say thank you for taking the time to read this, it’s more then I could ask of a stranger and to be honest my hopes for any assistance is rather low given the nature of humanity I’ve experienced through out my 40+ years of life. However in this moment it’s 3am I can’t sleep with all this stress on my mind and figured I don’t have anything to lose but my time on here and maybe at least venting my thoughts might provide some relief. I’m a father of 4 wonderful kids and a single parent. I have a 13 year old daughter, 5, 3, year old son and a 10 month old. Me and the mother separated and I happened to get custody of the children. Which is something Im very grateful for. I love them more then anything in this world and truth be told being a father is the only thing in my life I feel I’ve ever done right in this world. My Autistic 5 year old is non verbal and can be a handful but he is the most loving little boy and is for the most part always has a smile on his face. I honestly envy his ability to be happy and his ability to smile for the smallest of things. If only we adults could be so lucky. So my son the other day decided to pour out all of my 10 month olds Similac and used it like sand.. I thought to myself “well this sux” but it’s ok son I’ll go to Walmart and pick up some more. I had to hurry cause it was 10pm and they close at 11pm so I rushed there and there was a DUI checkpoint cause of labor day weekend. So I thought to myself it’s moving by pretty quickly so it shouldn’t delay me to bad. Let me state I don’t drink or do any drugs since my 1st kid was born I’ve been sober. So I wasn’t worried about the check point other then it taking up time to get thru. So they check my license which was fine but apparently 2 months ago my car insurance set to autopay couldn’t go thru cause the card expired and I forgot to update it. So when I got the email saying my car insurance was cancelled I immediately paid it. It was a little over 12 hrs I didn’t have insurance. I updated the card and didn’t think anything of it .. Well apparently here in PA any lapse regardless even for a couple hrs is a suspended registration unless you pay the $500 civil fine. Which I didn’t find out about until they impounded my car and made me walk home.. I pleaded with the officers to at least help me get Similac for my baby. All they could say is “Our heart goes out to you” that human spirit I was talking about hard at work.. so I said isn’t the officer creed protect and serve. I never received anything in the mail from the DMV or any kind of notification from any source. So because my Car is impounded I can’t work, my jobs almost an hr away so to Uber or Lyft would cost me almost $130 a day just to work to pay Uber.. Luckily my job let me take a 14 day unpaid leave to get things figured out ..but to be honest as you can see it’s now 3:44am and I’m still no closer to a solution. I need to come up with $612 to restore my registration $400 to get my car out of the impound. Also they have me a citation and paper work I have to submit to the court in 10 days from the infraction either by mail or in person or they are going to issue a warrant for my arrest. Which is madness for something like a couple hrs of no insurance. Let me also state that I had insurance and showed them I have insurance when they said it was suspended for that reason. So to be perfectly frank, I have no idea what to do or what can even be done. I can’t work without a car but I need money to get my car back. I have no family other then my children, no mom to plead with no siblings to beg for assistance, not even a best friend I can rely on to help or even say to me, “don’t worry everythings going to be ok, we can figure this out together.” So here we are towards the end of this really long explanation of why I’m asking you a total stranger for assistance with someone you’ll never know or even get to meet.. but if you read this far then let me say thank you, for at the very least you where willing to hear the story that is my life. That’s all I can really ask of you a total stranger, and all I can do is hope it was enough to move someone’s heart just enough to give even a dollar is a blessing when it’s unexpected. In closing this message to the reader or hopefully readers. Know that I’m only seaking what I need most I’m not trying to get rich or scam or move people in donating absurd amounts of money I only desire what I need so I can work again. I’d even take a loan and pay it back if I could. I’m only seeking $1112. My rent is paid thankfully and my phones probably gonna be cut any day .. but as long as my kids have food and a roof I don’t need much else. Well it’s 4:07pm and I’m gonna try and sleep to get my kids off to school. Thankfully they’re taking the bus this year. Goodnight and thx for listening!