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Hand written notes in cars will not prevent a tow, but they're part of a balanced breakfast, for me at least. The first 2 lucky car contestants in the Argabarga Towing Sweepstakes this mornin' had notes contained therein attempting to keep me at bay. Note to letter-writers: try garlic, or holy water, you'll have better luck.
Contestant 1
The note said "Please, Call xxx-xxx before towing?"
Cute, ya know, if they'd put an exclamation point at the end, It might have meant something* But alas, they put a question mark, leaving the tow an option to an open-ended request that I took them up on. Curses! Foiled by bad punctuation!
*actually, it wouldn't have mattered anyway, but don't tell anyone! Word of this gets out and we're looking at the biggest scandal since they suppressed the secret Martian-Nazi Invasion of 1958!
Contestant 2
The note said "I LIVE HERE. Do not tow, had emergency, had no other place to park Will be back first thing in the morning to move"
Firstly, if you lived there, you'd either have a parking permit, or be aware of the rules so that you'd know better than to try and plead your case
Secondly, "emergency" on your part does not equal lack of planning on my part, er, uh, wait, I know there's a trick to this..... hold on, I'll get back to this point later.
And thirdly, it was 8:55 AM at that point, that's almost 3 hours after the sun came up, and 55 minutes after I had already woken up, kicked the cat out of bed, went back to sleep, woke up again, got in my car, went back inside, got dressed, got back in the car, (okay, so I'm a little scatterbrained in the morning, so sue me!) fought my way though MORNING commute traffic to get to work, checked in my vehicle, powered up the radio and hit the streets running and found your car. Must've been dealing with a liberal arts student who's idea of "morning" is "up at the crack of noon."
Oh, now I get it! That "emergency" you were talking about? Your car is GONE, that's quite the exigent circumstance you're having, very eerily prophetic of you good Sir/and or/Madam! Perhaps you'd like to try your hand at predicting lotto numbers, as that'd net you the $115 needed to get the car back, long as you pick it up before Midnight tonight. Or as you probably call it, "lunchtime".
Contestant 1
The note said "Please, Call xxx-xxx before towing?"
Cute, ya know, if they'd put an exclamation point at the end, It might have meant something* But alas, they put a question mark, leaving the tow an option to an open-ended request that I took them up on. Curses! Foiled by bad punctuation!
*actually, it wouldn't have mattered anyway, but don't tell anyone! Word of this gets out and we're looking at the biggest scandal since they suppressed the secret Martian-Nazi Invasion of 1958!
Contestant 2
The note said "I LIVE HERE. Do not tow, had emergency, had no other place to park Will be back first thing in the morning to move"
Firstly, if you lived there, you'd either have a parking permit, or be aware of the rules so that you'd know better than to try and plead your case
Secondly, "emergency" on your part does not equal lack of planning on my part, er, uh, wait, I know there's a trick to this..... hold on, I'll get back to this point later.
And thirdly, it was 8:55 AM at that point, that's almost 3 hours after the sun came up, and 55 minutes after I had already woken up, kicked the cat out of bed, went back to sleep, woke up again, got in my car, went back inside, got dressed, got back in the car, (okay, so I'm a little scatterbrained in the morning, so sue me!) fought my way though MORNING commute traffic to get to work, checked in my vehicle, powered up the radio and hit the streets running and found your car. Must've been dealing with a liberal arts student who's idea of "morning" is "up at the crack of noon."
Oh, now I get it! That "emergency" you were talking about? Your car is GONE, that's quite the exigent circumstance you're having, very eerily prophetic of you good Sir/and or/Madam! Perhaps you'd like to try your hand at predicting lotto numbers, as that'd net you the $115 needed to get the car back, long as you pick it up before Midnight tonight. Or as you probably call it, "lunchtime".
It was during a snowstorm, and I could not for the life of me get my car up the steep side streets to get to my paper route customers. All the legal parking spaces within a mile and half (at least, the ones on the main roads I could get my car to) were full. It was either park illegally, or miss a hell of a lot of customers. For one side street, I parked in a customer's driveway (the kind that's a pull-out along the shoulder, not their main driveway). For the other side-street I couldn't drive up, I parked in a pull-out for a bus stop. I knew I would be long gone before the first bus arrived, and I left a pleading note explaining such. I didn't actually expect my note to work, but I didn't have other options at the time, and figured I would consider any impound costs as business expenses. I had to take the gamble. Fortunately, my car was still there when I returned.
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