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SKKY

(11,813 posts) Mon Oct 15, 2018, 12:39 AM Oct 2018

I wish I had been this clever when I got a parking ticket in the mail...

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I wish I had been this clever when I got a parking ticket in the mail... (Original Post) SKKY Oct 2018 OP

That always works. 2naSalit Oct 2018 #1

"Sadly, 'hopefully' doth butter no parsnips" unblock Oct 2018 #2

Got a ticket when we took a few days in the Wisconsin Dells for OT parking (30 years ago) rurallib Oct 2018 #3

2naSalit

(86,650 posts)

1. That always works.

Reply to SKKY (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2018, 04:53 AM

Oct 2018

unblock

(52,253 posts)

2. "Sadly, 'hopefully' doth butter no parsnips"

Reply to SKKY (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2018, 09:42 AM

Oct 2018

I am so using that!

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/fine_words_butter_no_parsnips

Proverb

fine words butter no parsnips

Nothing is achieved by empty words or flattery.

rurallib

(62,423 posts)

3. Got a ticket when we took a few days in the Wisconsin Dells for OT parking (30 years ago)

Reply to SKKY (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2018, 09:19 PM

Oct 2018

having no intention of paying I kept the ticket. When I saw my neighbors car downtown one day, I went and slipped it under the wiper and went home.
I told my kids who were best friends with the neighbor kids.

Just as we thought, later that evening the neighbors came over and the wife started telling me how she had gotten a ticket today. Not only that, the ticket was from Wisconsin Dells - a town they had never been in. Then they both were going nuts trying to figure out what the hell happened? Should they pay the ticket? What happens if they don't pay?

I asked if they checked the license number on the ticket just to make sure it was their car? Yep they figured it out. I told them I had 'lost' the ticket.............

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