Is that the correct term? Or should it be meter persons? Ticket distribution engineers? Anyways, saw one of them the other day, Tuesday I think, giving a ticket to a parked car in my neighborhood. In my neighborhood street sweeping occurs with annoying frequency- every 2md amd 4th Monday and Tuesday, alternating sides. If you happen to forget and park on the wrong side, you get a ticket between the hours of 9am – 12pm. So the other day I saw a T.D.E. at work giving a car a ticket. The timing was perfect, as right at that moment the streetsweeper was sweeping by and had to make an even bigger circle around the parked car and the T.D.E.’s car, bigger than if the T.D.E. had not been there. Thus the T.D.E. had caused the street sweeper to miss an even greater portion of the street. Which is exactly what the street sweeper is trying to prevent.
When you see that due to the street sweeper you got a ticket, you become the street’s weeper.
Just this morning I saw another T.D.E. in front of the local liquor store. On the back window of his vehicle was a sign that read something to the effect – “It is illegal to physically assault Transit Safety Officers under Oakland Penal Code blah blah blah…”
Has society deteriorated to such a level that such a sign is necessary? Are meter maids regularly assaulted? Do you think that someone who is beating up a meter maid with see that sign and stop?
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Something that happens quite quickly.