Is this the most boring post ever?...

.... I dunno, maybe.  Let's see how we go.  At right is photo of letter sent to the Road Traffic people to try to get out of a parking ticket we'd got in town.
The meter was broken when we tried to use it, so we rang the number on the meter and got a number to quote in case we got a ticket.  Sure enough we got a ticket.
But main reason for posting this, is that it brings to mind this: that there are heaps of things in Oz that are better than here in Hong Kong -- a lot of the shopping (Bunnings! Better Guitars!  Pirana Music!  JB Hi Fi!), the clear air, the beaches, being able to joke around in English....
But where Oz could do well to study from Hong Kong is in the public transport area and use of Octopus.  Why on earth can't they institute the contactless stored-value card and use it in all buses, trams, trains, parking lots, 7-11s, AND parking meters?? Why not??  They now have bridge toll booths with no people, but the only way visitors can pay is to log into an internet site and pay by credit card.  Come on, already!