Federal workers may have had Christmas Eve off of work this year, but D.C. Department of Public Works parking enforcement officers apparently did not. No matter, though: DPW says it will dismiss tickets doled out during rush hour on Dec. 24, says WTOP. DPW Director William Howland Jr. explained that the agency believes “that many people thought enforcement was lifted since federal workers were given the day off.”

If we were DPW employees, we don’t know what we’d be more pissed about: that we had to work on Christmas Eve, or that all the work we did that day might as well have not been done.

At least D.C. motorists will reap the benefits. If you got a parking ticket during rush hour Monday, there is no need to dispute it with DPW or with the D.C. DMV. The tickets are being corrected electronically.

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