The following story shows how Inventive Thinking can help us to negotiate and get out of tricky situations.
A few years ago I took a ride to an SIT workshop with one of my colleagues (he was driving). On the way, we stopped to drop off his computer that needed fixing. We parked near the entrance of the shop and started marching towards the entrance.
“I wouldn’t park there if I were you,” said the doorman, “you’re likely to get parked in”. We were in a hurry, so we answered, ‘It’ll be OK,’ even though we had a nagging suspicion that it wouldn’t be. Anyway, when we came out of the building, our suspicions were confirmed - a truck had parked us in, and the driver was very busy unloading.
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Everywhere in the world, and especially in countries that are still not fully computerized, the law enforcement authorities are faced with huge problems regarding unpaid fines, and this is especially true for parking fines. Do you pay your parking fines? You don’t have to answer that… let’s continue with the story.
Because of this problem, the law enforcement authorities have devised an excellent way to force us to pay our dues immediately - they simply tow the car away. However, towing is a clumsy and expensive process.
I once heard a novel solution to this problem from the city of Kiev, in the Ukraine. It appears to have been taken right out of the school of Systematic Inventive Thinking.
What do the authorities there do when they come across an illegally parked car? They simply remove the license plates from the offending vehicle and take them to the depot.
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