Going to jail in Iowa

This is a story about the time me and the band tried to go to California, and I ended up in jail. Heading out from Wisconsin one early morning on a half ass planned trip to California, it was just like any other spontanious thing we have done as a band. It was cold as all hell it was the middle of January, and snowing slightly. We packed up the banged up car I had gotten from Neil's mum. The back story on this dodge aries k is a little strange too. His mum got side swiped by a semi truck and it messed up the driver side of the car pretty bad, but it was still driveable it just had no driver side window which made it cold in winter. So we load up this car with our crap and headed south into Illinois. Everything was going great till we got into Iowa. We were in Iowa City area on the interstate when we decided to stop for gas and coffee, and donuts. So we got our stuff and went to leave and there was a 4 way stop sign with a flashing light since it was a construction zone and the stop lights were not working. I stopped for a few minutes it was dead on a Sunday morning, and I remember stirring my coffee. We got about 300 feet down the road after I went and boom get pulled over. The cop was a total asshole and claimed the car did not look safe for highway travel, and he claimed I blew the stop sign. So he ran my license and oh man turns out I was suspended in Wisconsin and never was notified about it. So they impounded the car, took me to jail, and told the rest of the band I had no chance of posting to get released anytime soon. The cops then dropped off the band at the bus station. Meanwhile I was in a jail cell after being strip searched, and all this for a freaking misdemeanor. So I was in there for about 4 hours when I started to get high blood sugar from my diabetes, so I called for a guard and they came and took me to their medical unit. Well they did not know how to handle me because there was no nurse on duty. So instead they got a judge in there on a Sunday morning and he asked if I would pay a fine if they let me go so I said sure, and they let me go just like that. Well the police station was about 6 blocks from the bus station where they told me they took the band. So i ran all the way there and just as i ran up the bus was leaving with the band on it. Once again I was up shit creek with a turd for a paddle. I ended up getting a free ride from a cab driver over to the big truck stop that was up the road about 2 blocks from the impound where my car was at. I didn't have any money left so I had to wait till the band got back home before they could wire me some cash to get my car. So I spent a couple days living out of this truck stop and waiting for cash. Finally i get the cash from Curt but it was not quite enough. Lucky for me the woman working the impound lot covered the other 25$ i didnt have to get my car back. lucky for me I also had just gassed it up before i was stopped so I had a full tank. I bolted out of Iowa like a bat out of hell heading back to Wisconsin pissed off the entire time that my band mates and good friends just left me there so quickly. I forgot there was tollways on the way back so I had to keep stopping at rest areas to bum money off people there. Ran into one nice guy that gave me 20$ I was pretty happy, I was able to take care of the tolls and put more gas in to get home. about 6 hours after the impound lot I was crossing the border back into Wisconsin. I went straight for Neil's place to bitch them out. Well it was uneventful I got there and bitched and then we all got drunk n high and the next life story will be the 2nd attempt at the California tour with a different band about a month later. If you enjoy my stories please donate it keeps me motivated.