The thing with living in the Plateau/Mile End is that if you park your car on the street (with a resident's permit) you have to move your car everyday. The other day I was telling one of our friends at the park that I had forgotten to move our parked car twice in the month of April and had miraculously escaped getting a parking ticket both times. I went on to say that this of course meant that I was overdue to get towed or something worse.
Today I was heading off to my doctor for my monthly steroid treatment, (thankfully our road hockey association does not test for folicle enhancing substances) and decided to drive so as not to cut into my work hours too much. As I neared the doctor's office I was approaching an intersection when the light changed. I quickly looked behind me and decided to go through. Having learned to drive in Winnipeg during the winter, my knee-jerk reaction is usually to maintain speed and go through before it turns red rather than hit the brakes and get rear-ended. As (my) luck would have it, our city's finest just happened to be sitting at that light perpindicular to me. Unlike our friend Neil I have no pre-planned strategy, can't really pretend to only speak Spanish, and my batting average for getting let off with a warning is 0.00%. (The last time being pulled over was about 10 years ago). To top things off Ann had the car registration in her wallet at home.
Argh. $95 later I am now the recipient of a ticket for the infraction: "DRIVER OF AN R.V. [registered vehicle?] FACING AN AMBER LIGHT, NOT STOPPING BEFORE THE STOP LINE." [Maybe it says a N.R.V. (non-registered vehicle?)]
Oh well, at least no points taken off and I can reset the parking karma back to zero.
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3 comments:
You should be allowed to fight that ticket based on poor grammar - "an R.V.", indeed.
Better still,
move to Alberta.
The speeding ticket I got from a highway camera was only 85 bucks, not 95.
Scofflaws - the lot of you.
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