Parking Tickets

I’m by no means the sort of person who moans about parking/speeding fines. You know when you’re on a double-yellow or doing 90mph down the motorway that you might get one.

My problem is with consistency.

We get free parking all around the flat, and Penny usually doesn’t have much trouble in finding a space. But on Sunday night, she did. So she parked Splat on the corner with his back wheel on a double-yellow.

Just to be clear: this is not the sort of double-yellow that’s there to stop you blocking a road completely, or is for ambulances or fire engines. It’s just the one that stops you parking too close to the corner of the road. So basically, Penny was about 2 feet too close to the corner. She’s done it many times, and she’ll do it many more times when there’s no-where else.

She got a ticket, placed on her windscreen at 10.21pm on Sunday night. Fair enough, she was parked illegally and it’s only £35.

But on Monday night at 6pm, there were many cars on double-yellow lines in the same area. Most of them more then a couple of feet over. It’s like that every night.