It took me nearly two years, but I finally succeeded.
In my last week as the reporter for The Winchester Star, I received my first parking ticket from the Winchester PD. The ironic part is I was ticketed while in the police station getting the weekly incident reports.
Every Tuesday morning I would trek down to police headquarters on Mt. Vernon Street to get the logs. Usually I would park in a two-hour spot, or in the three-hour parking lot near Town Hall. But on this particular week the annual En Ka Fair had co-opted the entire Town Hall lot, leaving a blight of parking spaces.
After circling like a vulture for a good 20 minutes, I was finally able to grab a space on Main Street. The problem was it was for only 15 minutes.
Of course it took me about 8 times that long to get the police logs, and as I hurried back to my car the orange square of paper could be seen from half a block away jammed under my windshield wiper. Drat!
Somewhere in my delusional mind I had the notion they wouldn’t give me a ticket, especially given the circumstances with the En Ka Fair and all. I was sadly mistaken.
But what’s fair is fair, and the picture attached to this post shall be proof that I paid my $20 ticket.
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