I was recently inspired to take this grainy photo at the St. Petersburg, Russia "Pulkovo" Airport.Apparently, in an effort to remove the redundancy of human workers, automatic parking meter machines were placed at the exit of the parking lot.
When an automobile arrives at Pulkovo Airport, the driver receives a piece of paper from the machine at the parking lot entrance which notes the time and date of entrance.Upon departing, the driver will arrive at the gate, and leave his car, to go to one of the two automated pay machines that are located on either side of the five or six lane exit.
Picture harried travelers running back and forth, weaving in and out of cars that are being driven by equally harried drivers because they also just needed to make the walk to the automatic pay machine. Makes for quite the traffic circus, and I found was just the humorous outlet I needed after a long flight.
