The Wheel of Time books, overall, are actually shorter than the first two Stormlight Archive books so far. Only one of the WoT books got up to a thousand pages; they average out to be about 825 pages each. :look (Using the page counts from here.)
So you looked like a nice, respectable, upstanding citizen... what was that judge thinking?! "Hmm, he looks like a nice, clean-cut young man... let's make him PAY PAY PAY!! :evil" Bah humbug to that judge, I say!
Oh goodness... sounds like you got a really, really grumpy cop or something! D: I've actually gotten pulled over for having no insurance before too (and on a car that still needed repairs in order to be properly registered and licensed, no less) and just got a very stern warning. :blink