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TIFU by parking improperly and stinking up my car

For some background, where I live there has been a big problem with public parking recently. Too many people, too few parking spaces.

But "wheel boots" aren't used here, unlike in America where I used to live. And on city streets, the cars are parked too close together for you to be towed. You also can't get your license suspended for parking violations. The worst that happens is you get a fine, which to me isn't much money, and they often don't even catch you to give you the fine.

I guess the sentiment is common, since unauthorized parking is pretty common.

Well, I guess the city had been getting complaints or they had enough, because a while ago after I got my 5th parking ticket, I got a note on the car along with the ticket saying that traffic enforcement would apply....what literally translated to "ferret scent?" / "mink scent/musk?" to my car, the next time it was parked improperly.

I had no clue if I should take that literally or even if my translation was right, but I didn't think much of it. I avoided parking in unauthorized places for a while, but I did so one day a couple months later when running a bit late for work.

And got away with it. So I did it again the next week, and then again a couple weeks later, and that time I came back to find the familiar ticket on my windshield.

"No big deal" I thought.

Until I got inside and turned the engine on, and then this SMELL hit me.

I've never smelled anything like it before; I still don't even know how to describe it. The closest I can think would be the smell of the zoo, but it was way stronger than that. Maybe someone who's been around ferrets can put it into words better for me...........

But it was awful and overwhelming, and seemed to get worse as I drove home.

Since then, I've tried just about everything I can think of to remove it, and it's faded a decent amount, but there's still a faint smell.

tl;dr unauthorized parking one too many times, car now smells like a dirty ferret cage

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