Parking tickets in San Francisco just went to $96.  The city has 441,000 paid parking spots.  That’s a lot of coin.

Worst job in the world has got to be metermaid…I mean parking enforcement officer.  These people have got to be the most loathed human beings on the planet.  How many times do you think they are confronted by an irate driver per day?

It’s not the person that we dislike of course; they are just doing their job, paying the bills, doing what needs to be done, just like the rest of us, right? It’s the practice; the institution that we don’t like, right?  I really can’t decide.

I think we should be judged for what we actually do.  I’m not talking about the product your company sells of the title you have, I’m talking about what you actually DO.  For example, the owner and president of a shoe company doesn’t really sell shoes; he or she organizes people to serve various functions that together produce, market, and sell shoes.  The president takes risks, manages finances, makes plans and employs people; he or she risks, manages, plans, organizes, and employs.  That’s why we respect him or her.

Meter maids don’t enforce parking laws.  They write tickets that make people angry.