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Date: 07 March 2008 23:10:57
OK guv, you got me bang to rights. Yes, I did return to my car fifteen minutes after my pay and display ticket had expired. But... but your evil controlled parking zone system only allows cars to park for a mere measly little hour, and obviously a Women's World Day of Prayer service is going to take more than an hour, and I didn't have time to park somewhere else and walk, and after all I was praying, which has to be a good thing to do, and why does God not reward me for my piety but instead lets me get landed with a £30 quid fine... it's enough to make one an atheist. Except of course if I had been an atheist I wouldn't have wanted to park there near the church in the first place.
And I know it really shouldn't cheer me up that when I got home I found my husband had a parking ticket today as well, but in some perverse way it does. Especially as his, in a different borough, was £40.
Oh by the way, as you may have guessed, I got my car back from the garage yesterday. It is not, however, fixed. They seem to have just let it sit there for 24 hours before concluding that it needed a part which they can't get till next Wednesday. It's only a fuse that keeps blowing, but in order to fix that, they have to replace a whole unit. At least that's what I think they said. I really ought to have sent my husband, who might possibly understand what they are talking about.
So I am going to be carless again for some of next week. After today's experience, though, getting a bike seems rather more tempting..