A Stroke of Brilliance and a Dab of Deceipt.....

I am a repeat parking offender. My job requires me to be at alot of meetings, and although I always plug my meter, sometimes I just don't make it out in time. In our town, you pay a couple of bucks if you hustle your butt over to City Hall within a couple of days, and clear this matter up. After about a weeek, it costs you 15.00. If you have outstanding tickets, you can't renew your driver's licence or register your car, so every year I have to cough up the cash for all my discretions before I am allowed to drive for another year. Last time, my parking ticket penality was 300 bucks, but I just write it off as the cost of doing business. And I always promise to better next year.Today, change in hand I went to plug my parking meter and the darn thing was froze up. It kept my first quarter ,didn't register any time and would not budge. This was my worst place for tickets, a government buiding, where they lurk outside, knowing your meter will run out because you are waiting for some bureaucrate.
And then, a flash of brilliance.... there was the parking ticket I got on Monday, waiting for the eye specialist, laying on the front seat of my car. So I looked around and shoved that old ticket under my windshield and ran.
And it worked. The parking meter guy must have thought he already nailed me and I got a free pass.
Now before you get all pissy about honesty, I'll tell ya I did put my handful of change into the SPCA tin on the front counter. But I'm keepin that darn ticket handy.