Sunday, April 12

Just the ticket for Jobsworth the Easter Sunday Bunny!

It's 10-15am on Easter Sunday, that holiest day of the year.
All around us the bells have been tolling, and as their last peals roll away, a peace descends over Boston as it has on this day for centuries past.
Aside from a few shops whose owners apparently know no better, everywhere is closed ....
Barely a soul is stirring.
But wait!
For one person this day of rest means a window of opportunity.
The chance to catch a few motorists unawares, as they innocently assume that Easter Bank Holiday Sunday is perhaps the one in the year when you can park without needing to pay.
WRONG!
In the time we took to make a circuit of the forlorn Central Park (when did all the rose beds get grassed over then?) the Easter Jobsworth Bunny had doled out at least a couple of tickets .... well, you've got to get the cost of your shift back, or it's not worth the effort, is it?
Not only that, but he went from car to car along the road, photographing each one front and back, to record a memento of the occasion ... doubtless important "evidence" ... but equally an intrusion into the privacy of the car owners, whose documents and belongings may well also have been pictured.
It's come to a shabby pass when, today of all days, Mammon is at work.
Words do not fail us.
The ones that spring to mind immediately are:-
Petty ...
Mean spirited...
Spiteful...
Jobsworth, jobsworth, jobsworth .....
A few others do not bear repeating here ....

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