The Myway Code Rule of the Moment: 115. Parking Meters

Our deluded colleagues at the VDLA have decided to rewrite the Highway Code after 75 years. From now on, The Highway Code becomes The Myway Code and will be available from all good bookshops as well as these Waterstone's and Amazon links. (Open in new windows.)

Rule 115: Parking Meters.

Parking meters offer a way for motorists to pay for exactly how much on-street parking they may require by dividing the hour, then minute, then second into infinitely tiny chargeable segments. In today’s time-sensitive world, modern parking nano-meters such as the one below can measure lengths of time shorter than the duration of a wasp’s breath.

Parking nano-meter durations

But even these meters are to be phased out shortly: the very latest models in London allow for payment of parking fees by the arrangement of an endowment mortgage, index-linked annuity or by cashing in your Parking Trust Fund, the initial investment of which was made by your parents the day you were born.

 Britain: What A State

The Department of Social Scrutiny's guide to your entire life in Britain. Includes all necessary tax and identity card application forms and a full guide to the British public transport system, as officially sanctioned by Notwork Rail.

Plus: New retirement guide "Are You Alright, Dear", handy graduated tea strength colour matching chart and official guidelines for the consumption of cake, biscuits and other snacks served at ambient room temperature.

Britain: What A State

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