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This note made a new mother's day after a stay in hospital

She had arrived back to car to find a parking ticket on the windscreen.

A PARKING TICKET stuck under a windscreen wiper is never a welcome sight, but how about facing this after a stay in hospital?

One woman in Australia arrived back to her car after spending a few days in hospital with her nine-week-old son to see that slip of paper.

“After those days in hospital, a parking ticket was one more thing that I didn’t need,” she wrote in an anonymous post on Canberra Mums.

“To my surprise, when I opened the envelope there was a note from a lovely lady named Laura.”

It read:

Hi there, I saw your car had a parking ticket on it, I’m sure whatever you are going through at hospital is tough enough so I have paid for you. Hope things get better!

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It also contained details of payment.

“I hope that Laura sees this and knows how much I appreciate her support,” the mother added.

We salute you, Laura.

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    Mute Paul Walsh
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    Jun 11th 2013, 7:36 PM

    No excuse at all for an error in a Leaving Cert exam paper. These papers should have all been tested before being given to the candidates. What an insult to the students. It shatters their confidence.

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    Mute Edward Malone
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    Jun 11th 2013, 9:36 PM

    Maybe I’m missing the point but if there’s two possible answers doesn’t that mean a student is more likely to get the an answer if they know one technique and not the other?
    “Two possible answers, I couldn’t get either so give me extra credit” ? I’m confused

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    Mute Tim Allen
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    Jun 11th 2013, 9:57 PM

    By including the 36 degree angle it turned the question into a jc trig ratio problem. If anything, the students who used the 36 degrees had a time advantage.

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    Mute Paul Walsh
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    Jun 11th 2013, 11:24 PM

    It’s not just the case of two possible answers though, it’s the time taken to check and re-check as the students who noticed the discrepancy would in the first instance think they had done something wrong. Similar to the balance sheet a couple of years ago in an accountancy question that wouldn’t balance. Time was spent trying to make it balance. The student thinks it’s they have made the error and loses confidence for the rest of the paper.

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    Mute Tim Allen
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    Jun 12th 2013, 12:03 AM

    With the 36 making it so simple, I don’t believe students would bother checking the long way with time being such an issue. Still, it is totally unacceptable to have such a basic error like that on a trig question plus miss the opportunity to fix it when they realised the Irish version was different. Why didn’t someone check to see which version was correct?

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    Mute Daryl Gunning
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    Jun 11th 2013, 7:29 PM

    There is a balls-up every year!!

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    Mute The Almighty
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    Jun 11th 2013, 8:56 PM

    Do not vote for that rat Sherlock in the next election.

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    Mute JayK
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    Jun 11th 2013, 9:55 PM

    Why not? An error on an LC question?

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    Mute The Almighty
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    Jun 11th 2013, 10:18 PM

    Read up on him jayk. He tried to had over control of the Internet to his sc-um friends.

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    Mute Sean
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    Jun 11th 2013, 11:48 PM

    Perhaps the Almighty himself would prefer he was tormented with fire and burning sulphur until the end of time, or maybe Sean should look to identify the accountable person and take appropriate action.

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    Mute Dermot Ryan
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    Jun 12th 2013, 12:48 AM

    I’m voting for Sean Sherlock ,he wore a lovely cricket jumper in Galway U.C.G. ; red and green stripes , over his shoulder ;
    Seriously Sean didn’t decide anything he was given a line to spin , our politicians don’t decide what happens , corruption is in the Civil Service not the politicians ;
    Almighty seeing as you are in heaven can you answer me this ;
    Do you see a day when we the people forgive our politicians, all our politicians and they turn whistleblower on the real corruption that is destroying our people , our relations , and hang the Eurocratic sleveens at the Ardilaun ;
    the way I’m beginning to look at it is our politicians are the key to a great future , they have the inside track and if they point the finger they deserve every penny they have legally or illegally , who cares if they have taken too much they won’t be able to spend it !
    Let’s all take a step back and say yes Elizabeth you have fed your people cheaply for years , yes Angela you think you will secure our oil reserves and all that is o.k. but please your method is driving good honest people to suicide and total despair , your methods are wrong and cruel, yes you can eat our excess food and yes you can have our excess oil , but we own it , please respect that and stop winding us up , we don’t do it to you !
    Our children are growing up without father’s because their father wish to honour their debts and the only way they can do it is with a rope , don’t see your people doing the same!

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    Mute gingerman
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    Jun 11th 2013, 7:39 PM

    This exam should be re-sit, and the people who screwed up should be fired

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    Mute Paul Walsh
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    Jun 11th 2013, 7:43 PM

    I would agree re the firing but the Irish don’t do accountability so I can’t see that happening. The exams are half way through though I don’t expect there’d be an appetite amongst students for a re-sit.

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    Mute M
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    Jun 11th 2013, 8:14 PM

    Probably find whoever wrote the exam was a pensioned out ex teacher, who was brought back on more money to cook up the exam!

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    Mute Susan Marsh
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    Jun 11th 2013, 9:03 PM

    Do you not remember the furore when the English paper had to be re-sat?! They’re not going to re-sit a paper over one question, no matter how much potential damage it did to students.

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    Mute Tim Lawson
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    Jun 12th 2013, 12:24 AM

    The person who wrote the question and those that checked the question will still get their increments! No heads ever roll.

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    Mute marcus de paor
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    Jun 11th 2013, 7:32 PM

    Shame

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    Mute Mehmet Troll
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    Jun 11th 2013, 7:50 PM

    Leaving Cert??? Who cares….

    Sure they’re all gonna end up on the scratch anyway!!

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    Mute Peter Daly
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    Jun 11th 2013, 10:54 PM

    An absolute disgrace in the first instance.
    Very hard psychologically on the students in the middle of their exams.
    Someone should be held accountable for this farce.

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    Jun 11th 2013, 10:43 PM

    I’d like to see some stats on the amount of mistakes made in third level papers…

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    Mute Dermot Ryan
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    Jun 12th 2013, 12:54 AM

    I had a teacher who continuosly referred to third level as “Lower institutes of Higher learning” . he was without a doubt the wisest and ost philosophical an I have ever met ; Chuck Feeny’s interference in Irish Education should not be under estimated or over praised ; watch the History teacher’s objection to the changes in the curriculum !

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    Mute Dermot Ryan
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    Jun 12th 2013, 12:55 AM

    sorry my my button was vandalised by a three year old keyboard warrior !

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    Mute Dermot Ryan
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    Jun 12th 2013, 2:17 AM

    “m” button

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    Mute Kevin Smyth
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    Jun 12th 2013, 10:51 AM

    Who listens to Sherlock anyway? He’s only a lacky.

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    Mute Karen Reidy
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    Jun 12th 2013, 12:19 AM

    What about the insane biology paper today

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    Mute Dermot Ryan
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    Jun 12th 2013, 12:59 AM

    point of interest ;
    Mary White O’Connor and Finian Mcgrath are connected through marriage and they probably don’t know it but I do !
    Cousins married to cousins of different families – you know the Irish way !

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    Mute Dermot Ryan
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    Jun 12th 2013, 2:18 AM

    ooooooooooooooooh ………..fact !

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