When Parking On A Slippery Slope, Always Curb Your Wheels

Actually I’d be quite happy with one grace period and see no reason to hassle you for more of them, as most sensible adults understand that grace periods don’t really work that way, but I guess if you’re used to nannying people you probably would think that the slippery slope applies here:

Mayor Blommberg slammed a proposed five-minute parking ticket grace period as a recipe for chaos.

“If you change the time, people would wait another five minutes and then ask for a grace period and pretty soon you’d have absolutely no ability to collect parking meter payments,” Bloomberg said.