Parking Meter Reminder That Saves You From the Ticket

You park, pay for two hours, and walk into the restaurant. The meal runs long. You completely forget the meter exists. When you come out, there is a ticket on the windshield, sometimes a tow notice. Or worse, your car is gone. Single-shot phone alarms are not enough because you are in conversation, the buzz is one of thirty notifications you ignore that hour, and the meter does not care that you almost remembered. The cost of forgetting is real money, anywhere from forty to over a hundred dollars depending on the city, plus the hours spent contesting tickets or retrieving towed vehicles. Some cities have apps that warn you, but only if you paid through their specific platform; coin-operated and credit-card meters give you nothing.