Parking isn’t fine
September 10th, 2007 at 00:56

On Friday night, for some inexplicable reason I ended up going to Mosh, again. As I don’t drink and I’m the only one qualified to operate a B-class motor vehicle, I was driving.

When you’re sober in a dank nightclub, you really begin to appreciate why people at these places drink to get drunk. I don’t drink because I reckon I don’t need artificial stimulants to appreciate the world. Basically I’m trying to take a pseudo-scientific high-ground by referencing the majesty of nature. Trouble is, there isn’t a lot of that nature to appreciate inside Mosh because there aren’t any windows, and I’ve seen spooky tunnels that are better lit. So I guess the patrons have to liven it up somehow.

But anyway, the next day, rather than waking up with a hangover, I woke up with something worse: a parking fine.

I opened the plastic bag stuck to the windscreen, that I’d failed to spot the night before, to see a demand for £60… or £30 if I pay in the next two weeks.

It turns out that the Nazis who run the car parks insist on charging people around the clock – I’d previously assumed that it would become free at some point during the early evening like nearly every other parking space on earth.

This raises two annoying questions in my mind: what sort of parking attendant works at 11:40pm on a Friday night?! What sort of car park demands money at that time of night?

I guess the new guy must have started – I’ve parked in the same place without a problem before… but maybe I was just lucky? The new guy must be so enthusiastic he’s donning his traffic wardens jacket and can’t wait for 8am. Presumably he justifies this moral travesty by framing himself as a sort of Batman vigilante figure, fighting the bastards who didn’t realise that it was 24 hour Pay & Display.

I’m not happy about this, as you might imagine, as I’m a poor student. I’ve already wrote to Bono to ask him to release a charity single to try and raise the £30 I need.

(Oh yeah, the Freedom of Information request is also in the post)

Comments(1)

1. Griffin
   September 10th, 2007 at 11:15 am

   If I was a Parking attendant working at midnight I’d certainly be jumping on any car that stopped long enough. What you relay have to watch out for is overzealous bored parking atendents. And on the bright side it gives some poor insomniac a job.

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