When you're up when everyone else is asleep and you're home when they're all at work, it's a real quest to find answers to burning questions.
Monday, October 10, 2005
the problem with parking -- vol. 8
the problem with parking is that the city uses only the finest of glue to affix tickets to your windshield. not only do you have two furry lines from the ticket you just got, but they are perfectly aligned with the two lines of goo still stuck there from the ticket you got back in April. it's so obtrusive that when you go back home, your father feels compelled to warn you multiple times about the perils of parking in the city, not once forgetting to mention that the big yellow thing they're sure to clamp onto your car is called a 'Denver Boot,' as if you had blocked out the previous 10,000,000 times he's ignored the fact that you pay your fines to lecture you about it.
the problem with parking is that you have to EXTRA careful you don't park in your neighbors spot in the parking garage, especially when you travel mon-thurs because when you get back home and realize your car is nowhere to be found, you have to shell out 125 bucks for the tow plus 25 per day of storage. 200 bucks i could have spent on a tivo box.
ReplyDeletehigh contrast i cant believe they towed your car!!!! thats why you need to know your parking lot neighbors, so they know to park in your spot, when you goof like that.
ReplyDeleteouch. and a TiVo is the investment that keeps on giving...
ReplyDeletesorry, buddy.
Carry a Denver boot with you and stick it on every time you park...
ReplyDeleteIt has been done, successfully at least once...
Doctor on call...No?
Nothing makes me contemplate suicide faster than a boot on the car.
ReplyDeleteits useless nothing you do will gain you a win against the "invisible enemy" he's all powerfull just give up!
ReplyDelete:)
you have to move to the city. saving yourself the parking tickets alone make it worth it!
ReplyDeleteare you kidding, jazz? can you imagine the fines i'd incur if i had to park in the city full-time? i'd have to purchase a parking spot and just live in my car in the city. at least in 'burbia, you can park practically anywhere for free.
ReplyDeleteI'm dreadful at parking. It's embarrassing. I'd probably be driving around over there with lots of ticket good on the windscreen.
ReplyDeletei think jazz was getting at not having a car and using public transport in the city and therefore avoiding parking pain...
ReplyDeletei think jazz was getting at not having a car and using public transport in the city and therefore avoiding parking pain...
ReplyDeleteParking is a nightmare. I say that ever time you enter one of these volumes and it's always, always true.
ReplyDeleteOn the upside, at least your dad is predictable. That's gotta be something, I suppose.