PARKING TICKETS -WHAT A JOKE

In two weeks time we have received THREE parking tickets. 1st - Doug parked in a spot near the Queens hospital to give a blessing, that close to the Hospital - too good to be true? Sure was, he got a ticket for parking in a Doctors parking spot. There was a sign there but it was knocked over, face down on the road. ($95.00) 2nd - Alternate street parking days, Every other day you have to park on the opposite side of the road. Due to street cleaning between the hours of 8:30 - 10:00 am. Therefore, all the cars that park on the other side of the road now have to find a place on our side of the road during these hours. Some one parked in front of our house and blocked our driveway so we parked four houses down from us. We got a ticket because the neighbor was mad we had taken their parking place. It was a rainy day and so the writing on the ticket was washed off. We called the number on the back of the ticket to have them tell us what it was for and how much, "It won't be in the computer for another 6 weeks." but the back of the ticket says we have 30 days to pay it or else. What a joke!!!! 3rd - Alternate street parking - we parked in our driveway. The nose of our car was sticking a foot out in the sidewalk. We used one foot and left 4 feet for sidewalk traffic. "sidewalk violation". ($115.00). Our drive way is so narrow that Doug has to climb out of the rear door when parking there because of the slight incline and the neighbors stairs, it totally blocks the front door from opening so he has to slip over the seat and go out the back door.

We could probably have a very nice vacation when we are done with our mission if we could have used all the money forked out for parking tickets for the next 21 months. Yes only 21 months left to go.