Anarchy

Will reign down on this poor city they say. Not exactly reign, because reigning suggests organization and as all of us know who lived through the WTO visit to Seattle a few years ago when the anarchists all wired up on caffeine destroyed a Starbucks. Yes I heard your sharp intake of breath, yes those heathen unorganized and unkempt anarchists (which is the latest style so I hear) smashed a window and destroyed lord knows how many espresso machines and traveling coffee mugs. So for those of you sitting smugly in your homes saying it can't happen to me and not to this lovely little city, beware because I heard it on CBC Radio and if they don't speak the truth in a very polite way then well we are to put it politely fucked.

How will this anarchy happen?

through parking meters.

Yes that is right, I totally understand if you want to stop reading this blog and catch your breath or have a nice cuppa of tea, but on the news the other day the parking meter police in their little yellow cars are up in arms. It seems that people are getting a bit pissed (not pissed as in drunk) but pissed when they find a ticket on the windows of their cars. These meter people enforcement types have been yelled at, their mothers have been cursed their family tree slammed and some have even almost been run over. Though if you ask me if someone was giving me a ticket as I was trying to leave my parking spot I wouldn't consider that running over as much as overly aggressive bumping of a human torso.

The president or leader or union representative of these parking meter checker satanic cults types stated on CBC Radio that if they did not do their job and give tickets very soon anarchy would reign through out the city. It that isn't enough to put the fear of god into you I don't know what would.

Picture this - hundreds maybe even 999 cars parking where ever they wanted for as long as they wanted. Why this is obscene, the horror of it, why if Regina goes what's next to stop these unorganized hoards of parking free people to travel to Saskatoon or even... Toronto.

You may laugh now, but wait until try and find a parking spot next time and it is taken up by some hybrid driving person who doesn't even have the decency to throw a loonie in their meter.

God save the Queen

Claudia