Islington
Posted Friday, March 6th, 2009 at 13:33
Valentines’s Day.
The MG has broken down in Swiss Cottage and Yvonne is coming to rescue me.
Bollards in a narrow Islington street have been set a third of the way across the street, so the driver’s lane is narrow going, broad oncoming.
But cars have been parked right up to the bollards, so it is very difficult to squeeze the car through the gap.
So Yvonne sensibly and carefully drives through the wider gap. Nobody gets hurt, nobody gets incommoded, nothing is damaged, nobody is bothered.
The CCTV cameras snap.
The penalty fine arrived this morning.
£120.
To repeat: how can a poor man stand such times and live?
