Mother's day?

Sort of.

After archery today, we went to Subiaco to exchange my terry cloth robe for the right size. (Aikidomayland 's heart was in the right place, but sizes are kinda beyond his ken). We pulled into the car park, and went to the ticket machine only to find it out of order. I took photographs of the ticket station, just in case the parking patrol tried to lay a ticket on us.

We had some lunch, and saw t patrol going by, and Aikidomayland mentioned to them the station was out of order. They said they knew, and went their merry way. We were about a whopping 3 minutes behind them, only to see them writing a parking ticket for our f&cking car! Their excuse: parked facing the wrong direction. There WAS no direction. And we were parked the exact same way three other vehicles had been parked. She tried to say that if we pulled out and got into a head on collision, the council would have been liable. That is a load of bullshit. She also claimed she didn t 'see' any other cars facing the wrong direction. Funny thing is one of the pulled away while she was ticketing our car. I told Aikidomayland they were looking for any excuse to rake in parking fines, since anyone parked there could say they couldn't get a ticket from the machine.

Aikidomayland is going to fight the $50 fine. I would too.

Then headed over to An's house to take her out for coffee. Mostly just to get her out of the house for a while. Someone needs to sit her down and tell her that the "Today Tonight" show isn't gospel, and should be held suspect. It's not quite as bad as FOX news in the US, but it's a polite runner up.