What is the most chaotic good act that you've ever witnessed?

My former employer had a metered parking lot.

The lot was heavily monitored and they'd ticket you like the minute your crap expired.

It was decidedly not good for business.

People want to be able to linger in a coffee shop, you know?

Besides, there was no reason for that lot to be metered anyhow.

It was barely even adjacent to anything but our shop.

Well, the meter just started breaking, all the time.

It would get fixed by the city, but then a few days later, it had be smashed or jammed or whatever.

We asked if people would be towed, and the city was like,

eh, no meter, no ticket.

One night I stayed a bit late to clean a freezer. When I left,

I spotted my boss breaking the freshly fixed meter. She was like, yep, guess I'm a criminal,

huh?

I once counselled one of my students in my homeroom to quit school, get a GED, and enroll in

an apprenticeship program. Had I been caught, I would have been fired since policy

was to try and motivate all students to graduate. The kid was failing all of his classes, which

were ninth grade courses, but he was smart, working a full-time job, and was already 18 years

old and had a crappy home life. Honestly, that's the smartest path for a determined and hard-working

kid who doesn't thrive in academia.

Good for you. He probably makes good money and has a stable job now. I hope so. He didn't take the

advice right away. As long as he was enrolled as a full-time student, his family kept getting a payout

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