bits of justice

Our office building is located in a pretty run-down, empty part of town and the only parking available is our employee lot, which doesn't have enough spots for everyone in the building. People have actually created illegal spots within the lot (extra car on the end of each parking row). All of the local streets are "no parking anytime" zones, but of course, they are filled end-to-end with cars b/c there just isn't enough space for everyone. As you can imagine, every once in a while cops will come by and probably fill their entire month's parking ticket quota in about an hour.

In January, I got one such ticket (about 10 mins before I came out to my car), for like $95!!! Sure I was parked illegally, but there really weren't any other options. So I decided to fight it.

Today I went to traffic court... my first time as a defendent, teehee. The judge was very nice. She is actually a good friend of the owner of our office building and comes here often. She said she's parked illegally there too! haha. She let me off. Awesome!