In May my wife and I spent a Saturday driving around New York City showing our son where we used to hang out. After lunch we found a parking ticket on our car. I was perplexed since we weren’t parked very long. We read the ticket and discovered I parked too close to a fire hydrant. I had seen the hydrant but thought I was far enough away. I paced it off, convinced the ticket was wrong, but it wasn’t. My ignorance cost me $115. Consequential adversity is when something adverse happens to us as a result of our own ...