In Popular Culture
The term 'meter maid' was popularised in The Beatles' song "Lovely Rita," in which the male singer, smitten with a traffic warden, recalls:
- Standing by a parking meter, when I caught a glimpse of Rita
- Filling in a ticket in her little white book.
- In a cap, she looked much older,
- And the bag across her shoulder
- Made her look a little like a military man.
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