Seriously, I was only away from my car for THREE MINUTES!!! Geez

[LynneSin]

#(%$)*@#$ @#)(#$)*#% Parking Ticket. That Iced Mocha Latte cost me $40. That ))(#$%&*# asshole had to be stalking me to get a parking ticket that quickly on my car.

[Rosie1223]

1. You have no one to blame but yourself

You keep telling people routes through your state that avoid the toll booths. Delaware has to make money somehow.

:hi:

[whistler162]

2. You only got ticketed because of the "Iced Mocha Latte"

drink real coffee nd you will never get another ticket!

[david13]

3. Yeah, it's somebody else's fault. Well, I should give you credit

for not being in the handicap space. That would be about $500 here.
dc

[HopeHoops]

4. That's what $tarbuck$ charges - how much was the ticket?

[NV Whino]

5. !!

:rofl:

[petronius]

6. Less than $40 for a parking ticket? I want to live where you live

That really does suck - hope the latte was good at least...

[struggle4progress]

7. I remember a ticket I got near a DC area metro once. I looked carefully at the coin meter,

figured out how long I would be away, jammed handfuls of quarters into the meter and went my way. When I got back, there was still time on the meter -- and there was a ticket on my car. So I thought, WTF! I thought, this must be some mistake! I looked at the ticket, and it said something like Look, bud! One hour parking!. Well, honestly, I hadn't see that posted. I looked about carefully: no big signs anywhere, nothing I can see. Finally I looked at the meter closely: at about hip level on this chest-high meter, there's a little sticker and somewhere among the boilerplate words about you shouldn't commit the felony of vandalizing the meter and so on, there's a notice in small 6 point type, saying this is a one hour parking spot. So they got $5 or $6 in my good-faith quarters from the meter plus another $40 or $50 for the parking violation. Clever little municipal scam designed by one of the hordes of sharpie lawyers that infest the locale: you could scarce park, pay, wait for the metro, ride to your stop, wait for the return train, and ride back without being in violation; or you could walk some blocks to the nearest business to say "Hi!" and then walk back to claim your parking ticket. And they were sure I wouldn't be hanging about to contest the scam as I'd out-of-region plates. Alexandria, I think it was, about a dozen years back