The Shock of a Lifetime

As I sat at work, going about my daily routine, I got a phone call that would through my world into a frightening sort of overdrive. The call, from a friend of my dad's, to tell me daddy was in jail. He'd already been there nearly a week. I can't say I was surprised that dad was caught with pot. He's never been dishonest or evasive about his drug use. But it was the extent of the charges he was facing and the extent to which Portage County was willing to go in order to make this more of a case than it really was. That's is what surprised me. The gentle man I've always called daddy was being treated like a violent criminal ... being held on a $25,ooo cash only bond! The sort of bond handed down to habitual offenders, to people with violent tendencies! Not for a 60 year old man who has been declared disabled, with strong attatchments to the community, a property owner. A man who doesn't have a passport and due to more than 27 surgeries, couldn't make it through a metal detector without showing his implant card. This is the man who warrants a $25,000 cash only bond? I think not!!!