Infraction

By Bec
My new boss is great…he looks like Jay Leno, he’s uber-friendly, and really easy-going. My first day there, the traffic police-lady popped her head in the office to tell him he had a new Christmas present: two hours of roadside parking for the month of December, instead of the usual one hour. He said thank you, and as she shut the door, without shame he commented to me that last month was the first time that he hadn’t received a parking ticket. “It’s a little game we play,” he jokingly remarked.
I should have thought twice about taking his parking advice to “go ahead and park on the street.” Finding myself a wee bit late yesterday, I saw the perfect parking spot: close to the office and directly in front of Mr. Leno’s nice car. Pleased, and only somewhat concerned, I went to work.
It should come as no surprise that after leaving work, I was greeted with my first ever parking ticket. (Time stamped literally 5 minutes before I got there – ouch!). Traffic cop 1, Rebecca 0.