So I was gone for the second half of the trading day because of some annoying and stupid events. I hadn’t moved my car in a few days, but it’s parked on the street and today was a street cleaning day. I went out 45 minutes before it needed to be moved, I got in and turned the key, [click,click,click, lights all flash]. The battery was dead. I called my buddy who was out at the beach walking his dog, it was gonna take him awhile to get back to his truck and AAA told me it could be an hour. On top of that I could not find my jumper cables anywhere, and my buddy didn’t have any.

After searching forever and not finding the cables, it was coming up on “witching hour.” I headed back out to my car hoping my buddy would get there or I could talk to the meter maid. The meter maid came, she didn’t care about my story, even when I tried to start the car in front of her. So then she starts telling me how she doesn’t care about my “sob story,” and starts typing the ticket into her stupid little machine. I’m yelling at her at this point as I am sooooooo pissed, I have veteran’s plates too mind you. The street sweeper gets there and the driver, who looks like a fat Otis Redding, decides to get out and be a tough guy. He starts in on me about how men shouldn’t yell at women, I explain the situation to him and he seems to understand for a second why I am upset, then when I grab the ticket and throw it into the street he wants to get all tough again. I let him know, simply, that I will smash him into tiny bits. He reasons that is about right. I don’t mean to be profane, as that is no longer the way of gentleman in these halls, but then I said:

Now that you fuckers ruined my day can I get a fucking jump?

I didn’t get a jump. The SFMTA is honestly criminal, they love giving tickets for absolute nonsense. I believe some ridiculous figure like 70% of the city’s revenue comes from parking citations. That’s sad, as if it wasn’t expensive enough here already. Now, these are the same folks that ticket postal department vehicle, so that way us tax payers are not only paying the meter maids’ salaries but also for the tickets that they give to the post office. The circle of life?

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