first parking ticket

sigh, the risks of car ownership.
a quick 15 mins in walgreens to use a $5 off $20 coupon on a warm and sunny saturday afternoon ended miserably with a $50 pain for lesson learnt. state of CA is running into budget deficits even before the financial crisis hit, and rumors are that parking attendants are working harder to bring in more monies into the state coffers by citing more idiots like me. sigh.