Syncronicity

Council worker just knocked on the door.

HIM:"Is that your car parked in the road outside your house"

ME:"No".

HIM:"Do you know whose car it is ?"

ME:"No. It could be anybody's. It could be somebody from the church next door.It could belong to a night worker who lodges in the street opposite. It could belong to a visitor or occupier to anyone of the houses in this street. Suggest you start asking in the church. Why are you asking ?"

HIM:"I've got to paint street markings on the road".

The background to this that the council has been angling for about the last two years to make this road a Controlled Parking Zone. Allegedly, this needed to be done because of the public demand ! Apparently, large numbers of cars have been dumped in street by commuters who then pick-up the London Underground half a mile away. I thought it a little fishy when coming back from holiday I received a letter advising me of this proposal and the fact that a survey had been conducted (Whilst I was away on holiday) which had confirmed that this was the case - looking out the window this morning the road is conspicously free of cars.

They want to put yellow lines down (Which includes the road outside my place) with a time restriction of 9.30-12.30 and 14.00-1700 (Monday to Friday). However, as I pointed out in my letter of objection, there's no real problem with parking most days (Except the weekend when church attendances go up)but there is a problem with evening parking by people attending the church and at night with lodgers in properties across the way, whose properties fall within a recently created CPZ on their side of the road, dumping cars in my road. Of course, this objection was totally ignored.

So, this morning, without prior notice, the bloke turns up to paint the lines . . . . . . .

The gods must like local democracy

Nick