meisa's lagoon

yesterday i saved someone $30, and they don't even know.

i was walking to my car in downtown evanston and noticed the parking man driving slowly by. i started digging in my pockets looking for change to load into whoever's meter had expired. but everyone was a "good" citizen and there were no expired meters. until he got to the car before mine. i watched him slowly take down the license plate number, and before he got out to issue the ticket, i asked him if i could do a good deed and help the poor sucker out by buying him 12 minutes with a dime. he let me and told me that i was too nice.
i like to think that this is true, but not really. while i was trying to save some poor person (not that poor, their car was a beemer) from one of those nasty yellow envelopes, my main motivation was to stop "the man" from getting $30.

i was sorry that the person whose car it was would never know about this good deed. not that i wanted a thank you, but i like to think that maybe if they knew, maybe they would have payed the favor foward and given that $30 that they would have been paying in a fine to someone who actually needed the money.

come to think of it though, knowing "the man", he probably would have driven by 12 minutes later and screwed the beemer owner out of $30 and me out of a dime. oh well.