Our little town has been experiencing parking chaos over the last 6 months because budget cuts meant nobody is around to give tickets. A couple of weeks ago, BBC decided to cover the story about what life is like without parking restrictions. They contacted the psychology department hoping that one of us could give some psychological insight into the situation, and I happened to be around to give the interview. I don’t know anything about the psychology of parking but psychologists know enough about human behavior to comment on what happens when there are no rules. Here is the full report. The Welsh version came out a week later. If you want to try your Welsh (or hear how spectacularly bad I am at Welsh), you can check it out at the 1:12:45 mark here.
In other news, we submitted the 3rd round of our adoption paperwork on 20 December 2011 which is about a year after we submitted the original set of paperwork. We hope it is the last round and that our baby will come in 2012. Happy new year to all!
