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Tomorrow shall be the real litmus test as to how dumb this semester's crop of students are, as that's when I might get lucky and find a permit good until "February 30th"
In the meantime. Experience the joy of, SNOW REMOVAL!!!!
Irritant the First
Due to snowfall, followed by a freeze-thaw-freeze cycle creating a lot of rock-hard ice, Global Domination Reality sent a notice around that all tenants must be out of their parking lots from 9am to 12pm for one day this week so that the contractors could bring in a front end loader and scoop the mess out so that there will be a place to put the additional 8'' to 12'' the weatherguy says is coming
Naturally, there's always that one person who, literally, didn't get the memo.
So we have to tow them out into the street, drop them, wait for the plow guys to do their thing, and then put them back.
Well, first lot of the day has 3 people who didn't move.
First one we hook and lift it an inch or so, and, oh lookie! Here comes the owner:
-"Uh, excuse me, why are you towing me? I have a permit!"
-"Lot has to be clear for snow removal"
-"Uh, you're not towing me away are you?"
-"No, the car's just needs to be out in the street, that's where it's going unless you want to move it for us, I can put it down"
-"oh, no, you can move it for me, thanks!"
And back inside she goes.......
Great, and it's an AWD SUV too. So now we have to strap it, dolly it, move it out into the street, unstrap, undolly, wait for the loader and dump truck to go in, scoop, and leave, strap, dolly, move it back INTO the lot, unstrap, undolly.....
IN THE FREEZING RAIN!
Made all the more repugnant, in that the commotion woke the other two people up, and they DID come out and moved their cars for us.
You know what lady? You're lucky we didn't put it back................. ON IT'S ROOF!
We can do that you know. You'd be surprised how much fun you can have with hydraulics when you just don't care what happens to the load on the other end. How do you think we teach the rookies how to recover a rollover? That sound of safety glass exploding into a shower of greenish pebbles warms my heart....... don't tempt me.
Irritant the Second
Next lot is scheduled to be cleared at 11am.
We get there 15 minutes ahead of the crew and only see 1 car that didn't move. It's loaded and pulled out into the street.
Done, on to the next lot.
Five minutes later, the snow crew pulls in and calls us back.
"There's a car in this lot you guys missed"
Huh? There was only one car.........
Driver goes back and finds that it's the SAME car as before. In that brief 10 minutes since he left, the owner woke up, looked out his window, saw that it had been moved...... AND MOVED IT BACK, apparently without considering, well, why it had mysteriously relocated itself like that.
Oh well, I'm sure there's that one cow in the herd that even after it gets zapped by the electric fence concludes not "Damn, better not do that again" but "That surely can't happen EVERY SINGLE TIME! Lets see if it happens again!"
Irritant the Third
This one DID come all the way back to the garage. Because the snow crew noticed that not only did he not get out of their way, he didn't even have a permit for that lot in the first place.
That no longer surprises me, but, I did take note that behind the driver's seat of said car, right where they'd fall if you just tossed them over your shoulder, were 5 little yellow envelopes containing University Campus parking tickets. Also lying there was a piece of scrap cardboard, with a note written on it in sharpie, declaring:
IF YOU DON'T GET OUT OF MY SPOT (#30) BY 8AM I AM GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE YOU TOWED, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION
Don't know where he picked that up, but it wasn't from THIS lot, Global Domination Reality doesn't assign spaces, just permits good for the whole lot, so that pretty much clinches it, he's a habitual illegal parker.
Imagine my non-surprise when back at the shop, I ran the plate trough the ticket system and it coughed up an additional $50 in unpaid Borough Tickets.
And to top it all off, after he came in, and paid ALL those tow/ticket fees to get the car back?
Yep, he went right back over to that same apartment and parked again, because we towed him out the very next morning.
And as we towed him away, again, all I could think was
In the meantime. Experience the joy of, SNOW REMOVAL!!!!
Irritant the First
Due to snowfall, followed by a freeze-thaw-freeze cycle creating a lot of rock-hard ice, Global Domination Reality sent a notice around that all tenants must be out of their parking lots from 9am to 12pm for one day this week so that the contractors could bring in a front end loader and scoop the mess out so that there will be a place to put the additional 8'' to 12'' the weatherguy says is coming
Naturally, there's always that one person who, literally, didn't get the memo.
So we have to tow them out into the street, drop them, wait for the plow guys to do their thing, and then put them back.
Well, first lot of the day has 3 people who didn't move.
First one we hook and lift it an inch or so, and, oh lookie! Here comes the owner:
-"Uh, excuse me, why are you towing me? I have a permit!"
-"Lot has to be clear for snow removal"
-"Uh, you're not towing me away are you?"
-"No, the car's just needs to be out in the street, that's where it's going unless you want to move it for us, I can put it down"
-"oh, no, you can move it for me, thanks!"
And back inside she goes.......
Great, and it's an AWD SUV too. So now we have to strap it, dolly it, move it out into the street, unstrap, undolly, wait for the loader and dump truck to go in, scoop, and leave, strap, dolly, move it back INTO the lot, unstrap, undolly..... IN THE FREEZING RAIN!
Made all the more repugnant, in that the commotion woke the other two people up, and they DID come out and moved their cars for us.
You know what lady? You're lucky we didn't put it back................. ON IT'S ROOF!
We can do that you know. You'd be surprised how much fun you can have with hydraulics when you just don't care what happens to the load on the other end. How do you think we teach the rookies how to recover a rollover? That sound of safety glass exploding into a shower of greenish pebbles warms my heart....... don't tempt me.
Irritant the Second
Next lot is scheduled to be cleared at 11am.
We get there 15 minutes ahead of the crew and only see 1 car that didn't move. It's loaded and pulled out into the street.
Done, on to the next lot.
Five minutes later, the snow crew pulls in and calls us back.
"There's a car in this lot you guys missed"
Huh? There was only one car.........
Driver goes back and finds that it's the SAME car as before. In that brief 10 minutes since he left, the owner woke up, looked out his window, saw that it had been moved...... AND MOVED IT BACK, apparently without considering, well, why it had mysteriously relocated itself like that.
Oh well, I'm sure there's that one cow in the herd that even after it gets zapped by the electric fence concludes not "Damn, better not do that again" but "That surely can't happen EVERY SINGLE TIME! Lets see if it happens again!"
Irritant the Third
This one DID come all the way back to the garage. Because the snow crew noticed that not only did he not get out of their way, he didn't even have a permit for that lot in the first place.
That no longer surprises me, but, I did take note that behind the driver's seat of said car, right where they'd fall if you just tossed them over your shoulder, were 5 little yellow envelopes containing University Campus parking tickets. Also lying there was a piece of scrap cardboard, with a note written on it in sharpie, declaring:
IF YOU DON'T GET OUT OF MY SPOT (#30) BY 8AM I AM GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE YOU TOWED, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION
Don't know where he picked that up, but it wasn't from THIS lot, Global Domination Reality doesn't assign spaces, just permits good for the whole lot, so that pretty much clinches it, he's a habitual illegal parker.
Imagine my non-surprise when back at the shop, I ran the plate trough the ticket system and it coughed up an additional $50 in unpaid Borough Tickets.
And to top it all off, after he came in, and paid ALL those tow/ticket fees to get the car back?
Yep, he went right back over to that same apartment and parked again, because we towed him out the very next morning.
And as we towed him away, again, all I could think was
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