Friday night we went out for dinner at Henry's Hi Life on the edge of downtown San Jose. It's a wonderful, rundown old place, with a very casual dressed-down crowd, and easily the best ribs in the Bay Area. But when we left we were annoyed to find a parking ticket on the windshield. Annoyed because we were completely unaware of any parking restrictions on the street at 10pm. I guess the parking person hadn't seen a Smart Car before - on the ticket where it indicated Make of vehicle there was the entry: "unknown".
It's ironic to get a parking ticket for a car who's main advantage is its ability to park anywhere, and doubly ironic to get cited in a suburban city with acres of free parking. It wasn't a cheap ticket either. I'm thinking of contesting it, or at least paying only half - if for no other reason than the car takes up only half a space!
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