Why I Need Your Driving School Certificate TWO Days Before Your Court Date
This is not just me coming up with arbitrary rules to make your life difficult. I make $0 from doing that, so please believe me when I tell you I have ZERO incentive to make up random rules or argue with people about it. Let me explain why I need your certificate TWO DAYS BEFORE YOUR COURT DATE.
Let’s say your court date is on the 3rd. I will leave the office, normally around 2pm (I have little kids and there’s no reason for me to sit in the office when I can do stuff at home – hello, 21st century!), the day before your court date. My mail doesn’t run here until 3, so if something is coming to me in the mail, I WILL NOT GET IT ON THE DAY BEFORE YOUR COURT DATE.
Moreover, the day before your court date, you know what I’m doing? I’m getting ready for court for everyone else and you. It’s really a huge time suck for me to be planning on meeting you for a drop off or trying to print this late email at 10PM or having to leave my family and go BACK to the office just to check the mail to see if something got there.
And remember, I ALWAYS give clients TWO MONTHS to get driving schools done. For the most part, the counties I go to only require online driving schools that you can do at your leisure. For those rare folks who have to do an in-person school, I certainly give more leeway. If you don’t get that online school done in two months, it is 99.999999% a time-management problem on your part. This does not, as much of a surprise as it might be to you, constitute an emergency on my part. I gave you plenty of time to help yourself out, so asking me to change my schedule, lose my family time, and have me run around in a tizzy because you couldn’t do an online course in 60 days is simply not a reasonable request to make of me.
If you took the time to read the Rep Agreement you filled out for me, you’ll note at the end that if you don’t get me your DS certificate two days prior to your court date then I can (and should!) charge you an extra fee. Remember, I have to appear in court for you and explain to the court why they offered you a plea deal and you’re dragging your feet. This is not necessarily always a simple thing. Then, instead of being able to send you a disposition email I have to send you an email explaining your deficit and the potential consequences of your failure. Your delay creates extra work and hassle on my part. You think you should get paid when you have to do extra work you shouldn’t have to do, right? Same here, friend.
The bottom line is this: You hired me to get you the best deal possible, but sometimes that requires some effort on your part. If you want the best deal, you have to expend the effort I ask of you, in the time-frame that I ask. There are deadlines in life, and definitely in court, and sometimes you just have to meet them, whatever your excuses might be. I don’t want this to be any more difficult than it already is, and trust me, I have NO desire whatsoever to argue with a client about why they should pay me more for making me do work because they sat on their homework. That’s no fun for me. If you want the best deal I can get you, jump through the hoops I give you in the time allotted and everything will be so much easier.
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