Murphy's Law

It's Murphy's Law, isn't it.

You see, I've been at Jean's for three or four months now, and I've been getting my mail redirected from Wavertree Road, because let's face it, sometimes you forget to give your address to someone / company that you really need to still get mail from, but in the heat of the move, you didn't inform them of the change.  That's why mail redirection is so good, because you can catch those odd few that you really want (and binning all the annoying junk mail, safe in the knowledge that when the redirection period is over, it'll keep going to your old address and annoying the new tenants there).

But a couple of weeks back I noticed that I was getting someone else's redirected mail.  Someone else from the same street I had lived in - Wavertree Road.   And not just the annoying junk mail stuff, no, I got her credit card bill and everything.  If I had been a wily criminal, I could've done some serious injustice with that information.  But no, I dutifully phone up some burke at Brixton Royal Mail sorting centre and politely (-ish!) voice my concern - especially as if I'm getting Ms V Rose's mail, then where is my mail going?

I wish now I hadn't.  Why?  Because of Murphy's Law...

You see, I got home today to discover a "redirected" letter  - and this time actually addressed to me - but alas, it was from the London Borough of Lambeth.  Apparently, on the morning of 2nd May, my car, Ruby, entered a so-called 'box junction' and stopped there when prohibited.  What?  What does that mean?

£120, that's what that means!  Or £60 if I pay it within 28 days.  £60!  And to think, if I hadn't phoned up Brixton Royal Mail, I might not've got the silly "penalty charge notice" and therefore could've got away with it!  But knowing that the redirection is now back in action, I'm sure the blighters would've been able to get through to me again (and that would've cost £180!).  Aaaaggghhh!!!

The real bum is that Ruby floppin' parked by a 'dropped footpath' (again, what on earth is that?) two weeks ago and cost me £60 then!  Seriously, if this car can't learn to behave, she'll have to go....!

That being said, though, they'll not get a penny out of me without a fight! I've looked at their "set of 4 photos", and if you check the time stamp in each one, no real amount of time has lapsed - which would've been the case had I stopped in the "box" for a while. It's only a matter of seconds - which is what you'd expect if I was driving through normally... so look out Lambeth, I'm comin' for ya!

Meanwhile, here's one of the lovely pictures they took to commemorate the incident... Annoying so-and-so's...