Is It a Coincidence?

We live in a cul-de-sac. Since we're not too fancy we just call it a circle. Several of the houses in the circle don't have a front yard with enough curb space to park a car parallel to the curb so most people in the circle pull their cars straight in. We normally park ours parallel because we have the most curb space in the circle. Whenever Mike parks one of our vehicles straight in I always tell him not to do it, but he never listens to me. Today I had to work so Mike took my vehicle, the truck, to take the kids to school because it has the car seats in it and I had to drive our crappy car to work. When I came home from work the truck was parked pulled straight in in front of our house. He parked it out there so I could pull the car in the driveway when I came home. I parked and then went in the house to take my equipment in and change my clothes. I needed to go over to my mom's house to get Amaya so I walked out to the truck to get in. We had a parking ticket for not parking parallel to the curb.

The thing I don't understand is that we've lived in this house for 17 years and for 17 years we, along with all of our neighbors, have parked that way and never got a ticket. My first thought was that Crazy Lady across the street must have called and complained because for some unknown reason she doesn't like us anymore. Oh, I forgot. The reason she doesn't like us isn't unknown. It's because one time we put an empty diaper box in her recycle can because it wouldn't fit in ours and for some reason it totally pushed her over the edge. The horror of having a cardboard box in your recycle can that isn't yours. Ever since that time she has been a total b*tch. I called Mike to tell him about the ticket (and to tell him that I've been telling him for years not to park like that and he should start listening to everything I tell him), and his first thought was that Crazy Lady was the reason we got the ticket. Now I hate to be paranoid about this, but I really think it was her. Mike wanted to tell one of the neighbors who talks to her about it, but I told him that guy would just tell her and then she would get satisfaction knowing that we knew it was her. I think we should just ignore it. Especially since we don't know if it was her or not.

I still just wonder, though, after 17 years of never having a problem parking like that, to getting a ticket shortly after Crazy Lady has taken it upon herself to monitor the circle, if she really did it or if it's just a coincidence.