Have you ever unintentionally broken the law?

September 11, 2015…

Technically it was September 10 when this started.

I asked my roommate if he would go get me some medicine from the store for me, as I was sick.

We were down to one car as his car was in the shop with a computer system failure.

He got angry at being asked to go out, took my car out with squealing wheels and was gone, turned his phone off and came back 2 hours later with the meds.

He threw the medicine at me, screamed at and berated me.

I have an autistic son who I’ve learned over the years to put my hand on the top of his head when he’s needing a redirect. I mistakenly tried this with the roommate, he pulled away and his hair got inadvertently pulled. He called 911 and told them I pulled his hair.

I sat on the porch and waited for police, I didn’t argue, I nearly passed out twice. (My temper wasn’t up during any of this, but his was) got taken to the hospital before I got taken to jail (really got treated like scum at the hospital) because of the anxiety attacks that were full force this whole time. I also got a strep test, it was positive.

My one call was to let the roommate know I had strep and to ask him to take my kids to clinic to get them tested.

I spent night in jail in an orange jumpsuit with no underclothes allowed under, with a wool blanket (I needed 2) and on a steel block for a ‘bed’.

I spent the whole night singing hymns to myself and praying, the next morning the judge had been released by 9 am.

Charges were eventually dismissed but not before getting several flyers in the mail telling my roommate they knew it was hard to live in a domestically violent home, and not without the prosecutor telling me I seemed like an ‘angry person’ in our face to face meeting.

The roommate was angry at me from the moment I asked him for the meds and never let his anger subside til I was locked up…even threw my shoes out the door when the police asked for them.

So yeah, I kinda have…but not really, broken the law.