I live on a main street of a big village/small town, busy but not hideously so.
Cars park on one side of the road, neither side had double yellows but one side has car parking spaces behind, the other doesn't. Not residents only and currently not full either.
A man (white, middle aged, looks perfectly fit and able - for those of you who like detail) has just parked on the 'other side' of the road and walked way, thus blocking the main road, the only one the bus and delivery lorries can use.
Guess what am looking at? A bus, a tractor, a mini bus and lots of cars, beeping and trying to wiggle through the chicane of parked cars. We have moved ours, to give a bigger gap for people to drive through/round.
I am waiting now, for the driver to come back... bus has made it through, the tractor had to mount the pavement and scared a woman who wasn't looking and just sort of texted her way through the people who were stood waiting, watching... older gent in a HUGE car has just floated through, smiling and waving at his audience... ooh! traffic warden has been called, he arrived at a jog (he's a lovely bloke, just the right man for this place, uses his common sense)... taking pictures, looking round, talking on his radio, more pictures and yes we have a ticket!
10 minutes later... driver has come back. He doesn't look happy. Is having a bit of a shout at some onlookers who are just laughing at him. He is having a good arm wave and knows some really good swear words, still shouting. He has poked the ticket down the drain... no, not quite, someone has given it back to him... it's on the floor... he has got into his car, is beeping and still shouting and has driven off - to a rousing cheer and round of applause.
I suspect that is already live on fb... oh! yes, so it is. pictures and everything (not me guv, honest!) 
local newspaper next.
And to think I was beginning to wonder why we moved here, from our rented house in the middle of nowhere 
It has all gone quiet now, and not even 5pm!