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Jonathan Hazzard (thonhazz@clark.net) wrote:

:    I recently pulled up to an open meter in the unit block of H Street, 
: NW to discover a ticket bitch (my term of endearment) ticketing every car 
: on the block.  I thought it odd to see so many cars in a row with expired 
: meters.  So I checked a meter or two and discovered they all had time on 
: them.  Then I checked the signs.  Just below the "Two Hour Parking M-F 
: 9:30 - 4:00" was a shiny new sign that said "No Parking Fridays 12:30 
: -2:30, Streetcleaning."  

Are you saying the signs were put up while you were parked?  Then you
might want to appeal that one.  I would not be surprised if a meter maid
followed the truck that puts up signs.  We have worse.

:    This is a new one to me.  What ever happened to the tradition of 
: street cleaning at night, when people didn't need parking spaces?  Is 
: this something that we can look froward to seeing all over the city?  

You mean when people from the suburbs don't need parking spaces?  
Actually, I don't know whether people park on unit H at night.  But there 
are many of these signs up, and there have been for a long time.

I've learned the hard way to read the signs very carefully.  A while 
back, I found that even though the five signs nearest where I parked had 
been ripped down, the ticket writer would still write.

:    Of course, you can always use my secret to ticket-free parking 
: nationwide: remove your windshield wipers!

Somehow I don't think that would work reliably in DC.

: 	 ~~~~	  Jonathan
: 	~c--oo	  thonhazz@clark.net
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: 	    -	  I voted for Clinton.  Today?  I'd do it again.
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