Out of Charachter

We have a fire hydrant in our front yard. It's kinda nice because it actually lowers our home owners insurance. The down side however is that every once in a while someone parked in front of our house gets a ticket for parking in front of it. Yesterday they gave my Mom a ticket. She comes to our house every day to watch Fiona while we're at work. Since she is obviously doing us a huge favor we said we'd pay the ticket. I wrote the check for $25, put it in the envelope, and was going to stamp it when I noticed it was postage paid. That struck me as weird. I mean the government isn't usually that courteous. I guess they want their money.