Sir, - With all the odium, regulation and harassment currently being heaped on my beleaguered fellow motorists, I wish to report an event which introduced a scintilla of equity into the equation and which made my day.
I discovered, while attempting to pay my legal parking fee, that a new-style meter would not accept any money. One of my coins did not return, so I twisted the red button to retrieve it and was rewarded with no fewer than eight £1 coins.
I was so gratified by this and by the chorus of congratulation from the small queue which had formed during the course of my travail, that, in a moment of weakness, Robin-Hood like, I shelled out all my winnings in parking fees for this motley crew.
I am calling on the Corporation to introduce odds - no matter how low - to give the motorist an incentive to play the game. - Yours, etc., Niall Moloney,
Cranmer Lane, Dublin 4.