What is the point?!

random story for you...

I had to go to the post office today to pick something up that was there for us... I went to park and saw there were parking meters (MOST places around here you have to pay to park, ugh!) I got out a quarter a dime and a nickel, as I wasn't sure how much this meter was... it seems like they all vary in price around this town.  I laughed out loud when I looked at the meter and it said "penny for 12 minutes" WHAT?!?! I thought it had to be a joke, but there on the side was only ONE slot for coins, and it said 1 cent.  What is the point....

Quite the contrast from the meter we saw in Chicago a few weeks ago... it had a credit card machine to pay for parking as it was $2/hour!