From his close friend and landpeer, the incomparable Juliana, comes an email I simply must share in its entirety:
Allegra, as an anarchist I thought you would appreciate this. In 2007, John took to me a movie to celebrate my birthday. It was at University of Victoria, where he had a film membership. He carefully parked his scooter on the sidewalk next to the bicycles and we attended a wonderful film about the life of Edith Piaf. When we came back out, it was to find a parking ticket, & he was NOT amused. Being John he had no intention to pay the ticket and ignored a number of friendly reminders from the University.
Forward to this morning when “he” received a letter from the University telling him that they had not been chasing him for the past 1.5 years because of a court dispute regarding the right for UBC to issue citations but that he still owed the money and they now wanted it. Apparently after appeal and counter appeal, UVIC is with it’s rights to cite violators so…. they were back at it.
I phoned, asked for Accounts Receivable and started the conversation with “Account # blah blah” … I explained that John would not be paying the bill because he was dead. I controlled the urge to tell her he wouldn’t have paid it if he was alive either. Period of Silence, then a pause for review and she came back on the line to tell me his account had been deleted from the system.
I know John is happy to know he won. A small victory and I’d much rather pay the $20 and have him back but… he won.
hugs and love
Juliana
