Someone needs to give the Cambridge Parking Authority some handwriting lessons. Aimee and I got a ticket a week or so ago, and I went online today to check on it, because I was curious to see if the license plate was entered correctly. Sure enough, the ticket was on record for someone else’s plate, with a “P” where the “D” should have been, due to sloppy handwriting on the ticket. The same thing happened to me a few months ago, when a traffic officer had left off one letter of my license plate on the ticket (which I never should have gotten anyway, but that’s another story…). I never paid that ticket, and I’m not going to pay this one, either. Is that wrong? Probably, but is it too much to expect that if they’re going to be draconian about their ticketing policies that they at least use good penmanship? I wonder how many tickets go unpaid because they aren’t made out to the right license plate? Most people probably pay them out of hand, without checking, but I feel like beating them at their own game of sneakiness, technicalities, and loopholes.