The public defender calls back. The judge is still waiting. Anne says she’s still working on it. By this time, it’s approaching 7:30 p.m. How much time do you need? Sigh. Audible impatience.
Thirty minutes later and another call later, Anne explains the best she can do is $1,100. The public defender offers to see if the judge will accept that. Surprise, surprise, the public defender calls back. The judge will accept $1,100. What a nice judge.
Anne is told to go to Walmart and purchase 11 $100 gift certificates. He will call her back and she can read the numbers on the gift cards to him. Anne agrees. What a good grandma.
After the time she said she would need to get there and back has passed, the public defender calls for the final time. She needs to read him the numbers on the gift cards.
Anne tells him she can’t do that because she works for a law enforcement agency and knows for a fact he doesn’t have her grandson.
“I felt like even though he took my time, it took time away from him scamming someone else,” Anne said.
Plus, it was fun. “I had a guest and we laughed all night.”
Anne’s story was hilarious and makes you want to give a little victory arm pump that she successfully wasted so much of that scammer’s time.
