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Drift
Reality > Washington,
DC > Parking Tickets
In
DC, we don't have elected representatives to the senate or the
house, we have atrocious taxes, housing is ridiculously expensive,
most people work federal jobs with pathetic financial remuneration,
the weather sucks in the winter and summer, and worst of all,
we have a Gestapo-like army of meter maids patrolling the city.
This
is the only city where I have to add a "parking ticket"
fund into my monthly budget because it is inevitable that at least
once/month, I will get a parking ticket.
There
is nothing more irritating to me than walking to my car, already
annoyed because the weather sucks and I don't have any federal
representation, and seeing that stupid pink slip on my dash.
What
makes me even more irritated is that they print those dumb tickets
out with some sort of strange glossy paper that makes your pen
smudge. As if it isn't bad enough that you actually have to write
"I, the undersigned, admit," like you're some kid who
has to write an apology, but your god damn pen smudges all over
your hand.
To
me, all these factors culminate in the metaphysical question of
"Do parking meter attendants go to hell because of all the
misery they cause?" Or is it DC local politicians, or whoever
makes the parking violation quota, who goes to hell?
I
like to think it is both.
What
do you think? Or better yet, what would you wish happen, in a
karmic sense, to parking meter attendants? Please offer your suggestions
in the forum.
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