Park Checkers: just jerks,or minions of the devil?

I got a parking ticket the other week and my reaction reminded me of all the things you see or hear about interactions with the devil.

They hand you contracts that are nearly impossible to contest without appealing to a higher power who has much better things to be doing with his spare time.

They do a bulk of their work when you're not around and more specifically in the dark of night when nobody is awake.

No one really believes you when you explain your side of the story. All people see is the mark (on the tire/of the devil) and the rest is just excuses.

The list goes on and on but I'm pretty sure park checkers are either huge jerks in real life or modern day minions of the devil. Assholes.

In real life that was the first ticket I got in nearly 2 years in Seattle and with the amount of street parking I do by my friends place I'm surprised I haven't gotten a ticket prior to now, that doesn't make me hate parking checkers any less though.


In real news, it would appear my hometown of Lisbon ND is going to survive the flood of '09. In 1997 I sandbagged around the town and our house with various members of town and my classmates. The river got almost 20 feet that year and it was a record high; and it sucked because that was the second major flood since we had moved into the house. Well, my parents moved to MN in '01 and left Lisbon behind, but the house and the river remained. This year the flood waters got nearly 3 feet higher than in '97 and the town passed on the sandbagging and moved onto clay dikes and some serious barriers. I'm going back to ND for a wedding in July and I'm going to make a detour to Lisbon to see what everything looks like.

I would download and link a bunch of pictures but that would be a lot much harder than just linking to a website of somebody from Lisbon who lives pretty close to me. Like this one and the actual blog with a ton of pictures is 3brats.

Last Sunday I spent a bunch of money to go see the Seattle Symphony play with Joshua Bell, a really excellent violin player. This Sunday I'm going to play kickball in a few hours and probably watch a lot of sports. I'm weird and I know it.

I promise to post more.