Since I teased someone with the story, on a different blog, I suppose I really ought to tell the whole story, here.

A few years ago, we participated in Prison Fellowship's Angel Tree project.  They suggested that we could write to the prisoner whose child we were giving a gift to, so we did this.   We wrote back and forth a few times, and wound up sponsoring him out of his half-way house several times.  Eventually, he was out for good. 

About this time, we also had an older car, which needed to be replaced.  We offered it to Billy, and he was very interested in it.  We had heard that giving away something like this had tax complications, so we sold it to him for $1.   

A few days later, I went into the library to pick up a book.  I had forgotten that I had a fine, and had not brought in my wallet, but I did have that $1 bill still in my pocket.  So, it took all the money I got from selling my car to pay my library fine.

I do still have fines pretty regularly, but Mike reminds me, "We can't afford to sell another car, just to pay your library fines!"    :)