There’s a road rule here in Oz which states that if you’re parking by the side of the road, you must park your car in the same direction as the traffic. This makes sense on a busy road as you don’t want someone holding up traffic while they try to get to the far side of the road. On quiet, low traffic, residential streets, it’s not that important.

I woke up this morning to find some tosser from the council writing tickets for all the parked cars on our street which were not facing the correct way, one of which happened to be Jacqui’s. He had a police escort, no doubt wary of getting smacked upside the head by a grumpy resident who hadn’t yet had their civilising coffee. $125 per car, and I saw at least 10 cars with tickets.

The knowledge that I can go to sleep and have the local council stab me in the back as a revenue raising exercise overnight gives me a nice warm glow inside. Bastards.