You're lucky I'm not runnin' ya in for a 3-15... Improper Swimwear
The first three months I worked here I got a parking ticket every month for being overtime. Now I habitually go out and move my car every two hours, and haven't had a parking ticket since.
Until today...
Parking where I work, sucks. The office won't pay for parking since I'm supposed to be out in the field part of the time, and they feel the expense of an 'unused' parking space during the days I'm on the road is enough justification not to get a paid parking space.
On the streets close by where there IS parking available, there is also a new condo being built, and half a block away an old brick building being gutted & remodeled. All of the construction workers drive honkin' huge pickups, vans, or SUV's (actually requiring the hauling capacity for their jobs, I won't begrudge them that) but they park so stupidly. Half a car length in front and behind each and every one of them. I'm sorry, but your vehicles are just not that unwieldy. So in a stretch where 4 cars could normally park you'll get a pickup, a van, and maybe a car wedged in tight on one end.
I was parked in one of these locations this morning (3 pickups taking up 5 spaces) in a fashion that I've parked before. Leaving enough room for a pickup to actually use the space behind them to back up and still get out of the space without jockeying for position. My front bumper was just outside of an alley, but not obstructing it, and I've seen others park that way before, as I have on previous occasions.
I get to my car and there's a ticket. Not the $35 for overtime, but $38 for being within 5 feet of a driveway... something I never knew about before. But now you know. And knowing is half the battle. (Gee Aye Joooooooe! >ahem<, but I digress...)
I guess the traffic enforcers (can't call 'em meter maids y'know) get all hyped up during baseball season and on the days the M's are out of town have to have some way to keep up their ticketing average.
I swear I want to print up some business cards to leave on windshields that say "You are parked stupidly" with check-boxes for too much space between cars, one wheel on sidewalk, parked facing wrong direction to flow of traffic (that's a real ticket-able offense, by the way, but it's fairly common around here nonetheless), and etc.
I'll get on that after I take out a sharpie and correct all the spelling errors on license plate frames ("If you can read this your to close", a two-fer)...
Until today...
Parking where I work, sucks. The office won't pay for parking since I'm supposed to be out in the field part of the time, and they feel the expense of an 'unused' parking space during the days I'm on the road is enough justification not to get a paid parking space.
On the streets close by where there IS parking available, there is also a new condo being built, and half a block away an old brick building being gutted & remodeled. All of the construction workers drive honkin' huge pickups, vans, or SUV's (actually requiring the hauling capacity for their jobs, I won't begrudge them that) but they park so stupidly. Half a car length in front and behind each and every one of them. I'm sorry, but your vehicles are just not that unwieldy. So in a stretch where 4 cars could normally park you'll get a pickup, a van, and maybe a car wedged in tight on one end.
I was parked in one of these locations this morning (3 pickups taking up 5 spaces) in a fashion that I've parked before. Leaving enough room for a pickup to actually use the space behind them to back up and still get out of the space without jockeying for position. My front bumper was just outside of an alley, but not obstructing it, and I've seen others park that way before, as I have on previous occasions.
I get to my car and there's a ticket. Not the $35 for overtime, but $38 for being within 5 feet of a driveway... something I never knew about before. But now you know. And knowing is half the battle. (Gee Aye Joooooooe! >ahem<, but I digress...)
I guess the traffic enforcers (can't call 'em meter maids y'know) get all hyped up during baseball season and on the days the M's are out of town have to have some way to keep up their ticketing average.
I swear I want to print up some business cards to leave on windshields that say "You are parked stupidly" with check-boxes for too much space between cars, one wheel on sidewalk, parked facing wrong direction to flow of traffic (that's a real ticket-able offense, by the way, but it's fairly common around here nonetheless), and etc.
I'll get on that after I take out a sharpie and correct all the spelling errors on license plate frames ("If you can read this your to close", a two-fer)...