Stupid stupid stupid

It is enough to make one apoplectic! You go out for dinner in a neighbourhood restaurant.  You are meeting one of your children and his family. It is eight o'clock in the evening. It is January. There is snow on the ground. The only clear bit is the centre of the road. The pavements are white and frozen. You park in a side road where there are no parking restrictions. Not that there are any at that time of night anyway.

You come back to the car at 10pm to find a penalty notice on the windscreen. It says you have parked near a cycle path or dropped kerb, not that anything is visible anyway. The next day, I look at the photographic evidence, which is available on line. Four photos. Two are totally black -it was night after all - and two are black as well except for my number plate. This is the evidence!

I am apoplectic not because I am being asked to pay, which I most certainly will not but because a) it is such a bloody waste of time and b) what the hell are Barnet thinking of having traffic wardens desperate to write out tickets at 10pm in a residential suburban road?