Is there any joy so great as escaping a parking ticket?

When people talk about finding joy in life, they normally mean the big things – nature, God, a sense of service. Half your luck, I say, when these things are available, but often we must take pleasure in the smaller joys.

Catching a sequence of green lights, one after the other. Or claiming a parking spot right outside the place you need to go (yelling “rock star park” to celebrate the moment). Or finding the computer cable you need in the first place you looked, rather than the last.

This past weekend, I had one of these joyous moments –........

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