Have you ever unintentionally broken the law?

I was in High School at the time a City Bus strike was taking place public buses were running for weeks. One day my friends and I missed the school bus so we decided to hitchhike home. I was standing near the road with my thumb out when the blue light of a police car started flashing. Too late. He saw me. I had just tried to catch a ride home with the police.

"Oh no," I thought. "This can’t be good." The officer pulled up to us, stopped, got out of his car,r and walked up to me. Feeling like a fugitive, he asked for my name and where I lived. Pulling out his notebook, he started to write me a ticket! The officer also wanted to know what my address was.

We lived in the country and always used our mailing address for everything, never our street address. I started giving him my P.O. Box number when he interrupted saying, "So, you live in a mailbox?" I felt foolish then. He got my info, tore the ticket off, handed it to me,e and left. Now I was a criminal. Not only that, my mom was stewing about paying the fine on the ticket. Since when did hitchhiking become a crime I wondered?