Ed Stavers, 70, was on a blind date when he over stayed his time in a free parking space.
When he returned to find the fine he wrote to the enforcement company telling them where he had been and appealing to their generosity, confessing: "There is nothing more foolish than a silly (financially pushed) old fool."
Although the message may have melted hearts at the enforcment company, when he showed it to his new girlfriend she broke off their affair.
In the letter, printed in the Sun, Mr Stavers explained that his life is “very dull” and he has been attempting to meet women at ballroom dances.
When his efforts failed - as the “old birds” always attend in pairs - he set up a date online and left his car in his home town of Chester-le-Street, Co Durham, to get the bus to Newcastle to meet her, he wrote.
“She was sat on a bus station bench looking a picture of loveliness,” he said of his “exceptional circumstances”.
As the pair shared two coffees and discussed their instant attraction "the time had flown", the former staff sergeant admitted, and he forgot about the fact that his three hours free parking had expired.
“I was on the wrong side of the law, BUT I may be in love, so why should I worry?”
he wrote.
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