That's $30 I'll Never See Again

Earlier this year, our city started having our streets sweeped twice a week. On Monday one side of the street is cleaned, then Friday is the other side. The streets pretty much look the same after the street sweeper goes by, and the streets weren't really that dirty to begin with. But anyway, about a month ago, Mig forgot about street-sweeping day and he got a parking ticket. I've had the ticket sitting on my counter, just waiting to be paid. I suppose I wouldn't consider thirty dollars to be a whole lot of money during more stable economic times, but today, as I wrote out my check, I couldn't help but think of the things I'd rather be buying with that money, like diapers, formula, I don't know..some chocolate maybe, anything.