Scavengers
I swear, these parking enforcers are like hyenas, crouching and hiding in the veld, patiently waiting for the eagles (drivers) to finish with their preys (cars), and quickly approach the "leftovers" as soon as the eagle leaves.
I got a parking fine again. This time, less than a minute after a park down the car, just outside of my apartment building…
I parked my car, and then I realized that I left my wallet at home. Learning from past lesson, when they gave me a parking fine for staying 15 minutes after expiry, I decided to immediately run up (figuratively - I actually took the elevator) to my apartment to get my wallet. And by the time I ran back down, which was about 5 minutes later, the yellow death note is already clipped neatly under the windshield wipers. "Cha-Ching", another $30 flushed down the toilet. When I saw that ticket, the first thing that came to my mind was to rip that yellow thing apart into 40 million pieces. But I didn’t. Instead, I dropped it "accidentally". The wind took it underneath the car chassis, and pressed it against one of the rear tires. I picked it up unwillingly, clipping it back to the windshield. Another thing I did, not sure why, but I did it anyways, was to actually pay at the parking meter for the rest of the half hour that I parked there.
May be what I should have done before is to leave a note to inform the cops that I will be coming down to pay, before I left my car.
What really pisses me off is that I have every fucking intention to pay.
Scavengers!
Afterthought: These cops are more like parasites. Savengers only take the leftovers, and they do no harm. But parasites survive on giving HELL to their hosts.
