What kind of retard can't make a receipt?

Santa Fe Magistrate Court, 10:00am.

So I was in Magistrate about half an hour ago, paying the $67 in court fees that arrived in the mail. I had until November to pay them, but I Take No Chances with these people - most bills, you don't pay them, they send you to Collections. These assholes have the power to issue a bench warrant for your arrest.

So I have a check at the ready to pay them. I'm supposed to meet with the woman handling the paperwork on my Community Service - of *course* she's not there (Why would she be? This is just my J'n'S after all?) so I figure that as long as I'm here, I'll pay the court costs.

$67. I got off easy - you did not. Let's see: police staking out my house for a week, three to five police cars on Christmas Eve (at time and a half, probably) Three days in jail...(that's about a thousand dollars), then court's time, including the DA, the "victim's advocate" and whatever else. Cost me $67. Cost you...wow, you probably could've housed a family from New Orelans for a month.

I hand the woman behind the glass the paperwork and they check, and she says, "Would you like a receipt? Or will a cancelled check be enough?"

And I'm thinking, "Well, if all it meant were a collections agency calling, then yes, a cancelled check would be enough. But since you can issue a bench warrant and have me thrown in jail for non-payment of $67, let's say you give me a receipt."

Have a seat, she says.

Fifteen minutes passes - can you BELIEVE this mothefucking shit? Fifteen minutes pass and No Receipt. What does it TAKE to make a receipt around here? I leave before I toss myself through a plate-glass window. HOW HARD IS IT to take the Invoice, stamp PAID on it, Xerox it, and hand me a copy? If it were that hard to issue a bench warrant, No One Would Have One. Funny how that shit works, isn't it?