Oh, he said, he`d gone into town with my Mum to do a bit of Christmas shopping and when they were ready to leave there was a traffic warden writing out a parking ticket.
My Dad had tried reasoning with the traffic warden but he just kept on writing, so my Dad called him an idiot.
With that the traffic warden stuck the ticket on the windscreen and started to write out a second ticket for a worn tyre ! When my Mum realised what he was doing, she hit the traffic warden with her bag, (she gets a bit like that) and started generally abusing him.
This went on for the best part of 20 minutes... the more my parents argued with the traffic warden, the more tickets the traffic warden wrote.
'Eventually', my Dad said, ' our bus arrived, so we jumped on it and came home.'
Generally quite a good week then.
Mike.