not guilty

i was running errands this morning when i decided to pass by a furniture shop near the station before heading home to check out tallboys (i badly need one for our room and the matching tallboy of our bedroom suite is no longer available :-<). i spent a little over 30 minutes in the shop looking at furniture when i found these on my car's windshield...

kainis! i parked near a post that has a loading zone sign on the left and a permissive parking sign on the right (beside each other that is, so IN CASE i broke the law it was just because i was confused with the signs :-P) . i'm pretty sure i checked before getting out of the car if it was okay to park where i did and upon checking the signs, i felt it was all okay. when i left, there was even a car parked in front and behind me! since i can't believe i was fined for parking there, i drove back to the area to read the sign again and still was convinced that i didn't break any law!

i need to pay au$125 (that's a little less than php5k!!!) which i'll be getting from my tallboy fund. :-(

i thought of not telling eric about it but since i still can't over the fact that i was issued a ticket, i need to bring him to the exact spot where i parked a while ago when we go back to the furniture shop later this afternoon after picking him up from the train station (that is if he's still interested to look at tallboys with me).

i'm thinking if it will be worth to elect having this matter heard at court or if i'll just charge it to experience.

i'm still sticking to my not quilty plea.