so i got this letter in the mail a while back that said i needed to pay my parking ticket by such and such a date or it will be a higher amount. and i thought to myself.. " hmm that is odd, i never got a parking ticket, furthermore i was never downtown vancouver that day at all.. furthermore i havent parked in a metered stall downtown since last october." so unless someone stole my car and didnt put change in the meter while they were galavanting around, then this is a mistake. so i thought i would call the number and straighten this thing out. i talked to some lady and she said that all i needed to do was write a letter stating my situation and that should take care of it. a few days later after sending that letter i get a call from the city telling me that i need to fill out an appeal form and send that in by the end of the business day. which was impossible unless i was superman. and i certainly wasnt going to drive all the way downtown to fill out an appeal form for a ticket that was wrongfully given to me in the first place. the lady said that the car cited was a green honda, but it was a two door and ours is a four door. how there is another green honda out there with a similar license plate i do not know, but seriously what are the chances of that? sooooooooo anyways, i sent over a fax (she finally agreed to me faxing it over) with the appeal form and a note from my doctor stating that i was in her office at the time of the crime. i figured that this would be all i would need to do to clear my name and we would be getting a letter in a couple weeks saying so.... but when we got the letter it said that i needed to be in court on july 31st! i was outraged. sure the ticket was only 7 bucks but i wasnt the one who parked there i didnt want to pay money for something i didnt do. but now things were getting out of hand and i had to go to court... just ridiculous. so i forgot about this ticket since we just had a baby and all, but then remembered last week. i tried calling the lady i had talked to before but she never called back. finally today i call the court and they say that the ticket had been paid and i didnt owe anything and wouldnt need to come to court! i was hoping that the real felon would have paid it and gotten me off the hook. and he did! i was so stinking happy when i heard the operator tell me that, i said " are you sure?" she said yes. i said " positive?" she said "yes you dont owe anything" hooray hooray! all that hassle and i was innocent all along. what would you have done if you got a ticket in the mail and you shouldnt have? would you have paid it just to avoid the hassle? i agree time is money, but i am a stay at home mom i dont get paid for this (== oh by the way i went to the dentist today and the hygienist was very sweet, but i HATED it still. just the smell and the sounds and the feeling.... yuck, i still smell like the dentist right now! my teeth are fine and nothing terrible going on in there so i was relieved about that, but it was a little nerve racking for me as i thought it would be! i ended up going to Prairie Dental on 117th in vancouver. i really like it there and am going back again. it is a small private practice not some huge money hungry blood sucking corporate people (= well i dont actually know that, but i felt good about going there(=