Parking in the rain
The other day it was raining cats and dogs in Munich when I parked my car outside the office in an area where parking is only permitted after paying at the parking meters that are placed all along the roads.
Unfortunately I did not have enough change to pay for the entire time that I would have been in the office and as it is was raining that much I preferred paying just for the time that my change lasted and heading directly into the office, instead of getting soaking wet while walking down to the next shop to get more change.
After all being Milanese (or at least still a bit Milanese) I thought no traffic warden is coming by in that weather anyway. In fact in Milan when it rains you can park your car anywhere whithout getting a fine but oh was I wrong about the Munich traffic wardens….
I came down from the office in the afternoon looked at my car and bursted out in laughter. People turned their heads not understanding why on earth someone would start laughing because she got a fine… but I laughed and laughed because what I found on my car was a fine ticket, neatly packed in a little plastic bag to protect it from the rain!!!!
So here they walk around even with heavy rainfall and they are even so organized that they have raincoats for the fines. I guess this is what they call the typical German perfectionism.
