They're not exactly known for their gaiety whilst on patrol.
But there is one simple pleasure traffic wardens enjoy above everything else.
And for this enforcement officer the writing of yet another fine just had to be celebrated.
Whilst her colleague filled out the necessary paperwork she raised her arms in the air - and danced.
Not content with her mini workout though, the traffic warden then chose to ditch the rumba - for a little pole work.
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Overjoyed that her colleague has booked a motorist, this parking officer breaks into a dance
The mobile phone footage was captured by an anonymous bystander who watched the bizarre dance from a high-rise building opposite the car park in Hull, East Yorkshire, last week.
The two-minute film begins with the two traffic wardens approaching a white van parked illegally.
Leaving her colleague to write out the ticket the woman - dressed in full uniform - begins her routine by waving her hands in the air before bobbing up and down.
As if mimicking the hokey-cokey she then skips back towards her colleague before turning once more, this time kicking her legs up and down in the air alternately.
Finally she bobs up and down before the climax of her dance - around the car park lamp post.
The traffic warden dances and gyrates against a lamp post
Speaking from his home in Hull, the amateur cameraman, who was quick to draw his mobile phone camera as the one-woman street dance broke out, said it looked
as if she was doing a victory dance as her partner wrote out a ticket.
The man, who did not want to be named, said: 'It was absolutely unbelievable. I was just staring out of the window at work and I spotted the two wardens checking out the white van.
'Then, as one of them was checking out the van, the other just burst into this ludicrous dance. From where I was standing it definitely looked like she was dancing for
joy.
'I might be wrong but to me it looked like a victory dance.'
A spokesperson for Hull City Council said: 'Whilst the video footage does not show a civil enforcement officer placing a penalty charge notice on a vehicle, it does show unacceptable behaviour by another enforcement officer in the vicinity.
'Our enforcement contractor is undertaking an investigation.
'Parking enforcement is used as a means to encourage sensible parking and civil enforcement officers do not have any targets to achieve with regard to the issue of penalty charge notices.'
The traffic warden's poledance
...and her little jig of glee