Kuala Lampur, July 17 -- The staff scream over the kopitiam's boisterous lunch crowd, "Parking, bayar parking."

Patrons speed-punch their apps to avoid a fine, 50 sen an hour. But they would rather not.

Nobody wants to pay for parking if they can. They play the game. They know the terrain.

No enforcement when it rains, and only x-number of enforcement officers for x-number of spots from one end of Batu 9 Cheras around MRT Taman Suntex to Alam Jaya with its migrant hovels.

Everyone plays. No one quits.

But let's forget this Cheras which sits inside Kajang Municipal Council. To the other 11 councils in Selangor.

There's company from a company which found a company

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