Not too many houses are built these days without an underground parking area for residents to leave their cars at. Those who don't have that privilege do probably own a local resident card (don't ask me what colour it is - green and white?) which will give them a free park at streets nearby (how close I don't know either, there must be some regulation on curb colours and distances I've lived very happily not knowing about till now).
There is however an increasingly small bunch of poor devils who live in rented flats and do not officially belong there (the problem with frequent change of address and avoiding the mess of renewing the whole set of documents, accounts, etc) but somewhere else (maybe not even in town). Those ones should be wise enough not to own any kind of vehicle that needs a parking lot. In case they are not that wise or lucky, and aren't willing to pour a daily waterfall of coins into the parking posts for getting the right to park at some street in the neighbourhood, well then they're in trouble.
Summertime's no particular good season for the go-betweens (as that's usually their only choice), as the commuting between free parking areas in town and their homes will often be taken both at lunchtime and under a ruthless sun.
The poor devil's bless has arrived however: there's no charge for parking at the city streets in August, whatever their colour! (well at least along the afternoon). Hope the regulation won't harm the not too well treated collective of parking surveillance workers, but I know about at least one lad who will be able to have lunch half an hour before he did in July - and may not need to take a shower first!
Who said staying in town for the summer is a curse?
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