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Tired and Useless Excuse is Tired and Useless
-"Why did I get towed from Nuisance Apartments? I parked in the visitor lot!
-"You were called in for not having a visitor pass, all cars parking there must have either resident or visitor passes"
-"I'm not from around here"
-"okay..."
-"I just came in from out of state!"
-"Okay, you still need a permit for that lot"
-"Well, where am I supposed to park until I can get one??"
-"Public parking, either a meter lot or a garage, the closest garage to that apartment is on the corner of This St and That St, it's about 5 blocks from where you are now.
-"Look, I'm not from around here, I don't know where that is"
-"From where you are, This St runs along the front of the building. You'll go five blocks west on it until you hit the traffic light at That St, and on the corner next to the Arbys with the big red and orange sign out front is a 4 story public parking garage, can't miss it"
-"But, I don't know where that is!"
-"I just told you where it was and how to get there"
-"I'm not from around here! I just drove in, can't I just park here for the night?"
-"Not without a permit, if they call you in to me again, I'll have no choice but to tow you again, I'm under contract."
-"Can't you just let me park along This Street?"
-"That's not my jurisdiction, the street belongs to the Borough, and they'll ticket between 2am and 6am, so if you want overnight parking, you'll have to use a meter lot or a garage, the one at This and That is the closest one to where you are"
-"How much would the ticket be if they ticket me?"
-"Honestly, I have no idea, I've never been ticketed. Probably $15-$20"
-"Unbelievable! There's nothing else?! This is BULLS*IT!"
Well, welcome to Real Life, Dear Boy, I'd invest in a nice set of rubber hip waders if I was you, cuz' that BS only gets deeper from here on out.... I can only assume you were trying to play the game of "Just Pester Till You Get Your Way" with me with your constant I'm-an-out-of-towner excuses, too bad I'm the world-champion at that game.
An Excuse That Might Have Worked..... Had I Been a Misogynist Knuckle-Dragging Troglodyte
I see a car that doesn't have permit for lot
I pull in to retrieve car
As I'm checking it over, the college kid owner comes running out, apologizing before she even gets fully clear of the door and begging me to please please puh-leeezeee not tow her.
I inform her that because I haven't hooked up the car, she can leave, but it has to be immediately.
Naturally, she agrees to move it.
At that point, her friend decides to put in HER two cents on the matter.
"Why you have to pick on her, she's JUST A GIRL!"
*record needle scratch*
You know, it occurs to me, if I made any, ANY comment at all towards you, derogatory or not, and ended it with "because you're just a girl", and if someone happened to overhear that , or capture it on a cellphone, well, do have any idea what the public reaction to me would be? I'd never live it down, Heck, I wouldn't even LIVE long enough to live it down. I'd wager that there would be so little of me left after the progressive-minded populace of this college town got done beating the ol' grey matter out of me for daring to make such an absurd comment that the guys who run the scanning electron microscope lab up on campus would have to be called in to differentiate which of the smears on the pavement were the remains of my skull-fillings versus transmission seepage from a 94' Buick Regal GS.
And yet, you think it's perfectly fine to turn that around and use it as a perfectly valid defense for your friend's poor decision that the parking permit was optional?
Please, I'm an equal-opportunity hater, I despise all forms of carbon-based life with drivers licenses equally.
Technically a Statement Plus an Excuse, Still Worthless
I'm sizing up another car for a tow in that big new property they just turned on when the owner comes running out.
-Please don't tow me!
-As long as you move the car, I won't have to
-Yeah, I'm visiting a friend, I'll only be another hour
-No, you need to move it now
-But I'm just VISITING, I'll be gone in 45 minutes!
-Without a permit, you can't park here, you can move it now or we can move it for you.
I think I actually felt her wishing death upon me as she drove off. What's more the rules for that lot say that ANY kind of permit is fine, visitor or resident. I even looked into how one goes about getting visitor passes as someone is bound to ask and you can actually print them out yourself, from your own computer, any time of the day or night. You go to the reality company's website, put in your information, make a $3 payment to them, and you get a downloadable .pdf file you can print out and just leave on the dash that's good for 24 hours, that's it, you don't have to talk face-to-face with another living soul, and that's STILL too much trouble as far as some are concerned......
-"Why did I get towed from Nuisance Apartments? I parked in the visitor lot!
-"You were called in for not having a visitor pass, all cars parking there must have either resident or visitor passes"
-"I'm not from around here"
-"okay..."
-"I just came in from out of state!"
-"Okay, you still need a permit for that lot"
-"Well, where am I supposed to park until I can get one??"
-"Public parking, either a meter lot or a garage, the closest garage to that apartment is on the corner of This St and That St, it's about 5 blocks from where you are now.
-"Look, I'm not from around here, I don't know where that is"
-"From where you are, This St runs along the front of the building. You'll go five blocks west on it until you hit the traffic light at That St, and on the corner next to the Arbys with the big red and orange sign out front is a 4 story public parking garage, can't miss it"
-"But, I don't know where that is!"
-"I just told you where it was and how to get there"
-"I'm not from around here! I just drove in, can't I just park here for the night?"
-"Not without a permit, if they call you in to me again, I'll have no choice but to tow you again, I'm under contract."
-"Can't you just let me park along This Street?"
-"That's not my jurisdiction, the street belongs to the Borough, and they'll ticket between 2am and 6am, so if you want overnight parking, you'll have to use a meter lot or a garage, the one at This and That is the closest one to where you are"
-"How much would the ticket be if they ticket me?"
-"Honestly, I have no idea, I've never been ticketed. Probably $15-$20"
-"Unbelievable! There's nothing else?! This is BULLS*IT!"
Well, welcome to Real Life, Dear Boy, I'd invest in a nice set of rubber hip waders if I was you, cuz' that BS only gets deeper from here on out.... I can only assume you were trying to play the game of "Just Pester Till You Get Your Way" with me with your constant I'm-an-out-of-towner excuses, too bad I'm the world-champion at that game.
An Excuse That Might Have Worked..... Had I Been a Misogynist Knuckle-Dragging Troglodyte
I see a car that doesn't have permit for lot
I pull in to retrieve car
As I'm checking it over, the college kid owner comes running out, apologizing before she even gets fully clear of the door and begging me to please please puh-leeezeee not tow her.
I inform her that because I haven't hooked up the car, she can leave, but it has to be immediately.
Naturally, she agrees to move it.
At that point, her friend decides to put in HER two cents on the matter.
"Why you have to pick on her, she's JUST A GIRL!"
*record needle scratch*
You know, it occurs to me, if I made any, ANY comment at all towards you, derogatory or not, and ended it with "because you're just a girl", and if someone happened to overhear that , or capture it on a cellphone, well, do have any idea what the public reaction to me would be? I'd never live it down, Heck, I wouldn't even LIVE long enough to live it down. I'd wager that there would be so little of me left after the progressive-minded populace of this college town got done beating the ol' grey matter out of me for daring to make such an absurd comment that the guys who run the scanning electron microscope lab up on campus would have to be called in to differentiate which of the smears on the pavement were the remains of my skull-fillings versus transmission seepage from a 94' Buick Regal GS.
And yet, you think it's perfectly fine to turn that around and use it as a perfectly valid defense for your friend's poor decision that the parking permit was optional?
Please, I'm an equal-opportunity hater, I despise all forms of carbon-based life with drivers licenses equally.
Technically a Statement Plus an Excuse, Still Worthless
I'm sizing up another car for a tow in that big new property they just turned on when the owner comes running out.
-Please don't tow me!
-As long as you move the car, I won't have to
-Yeah, I'm visiting a friend, I'll only be another hour
-No, you need to move it now
-But I'm just VISITING, I'll be gone in 45 minutes!
-Without a permit, you can't park here, you can move it now or we can move it for you.
I think I actually felt her wishing death upon me as she drove off. What's more the rules for that lot say that ANY kind of permit is fine, visitor or resident. I even looked into how one goes about getting visitor passes as someone is bound to ask and you can actually print them out yourself, from your own computer, any time of the day or night. You go to the reality company's website, put in your information, make a $3 payment to them, and you get a downloadable .pdf file you can print out and just leave on the dash that's good for 24 hours, that's it, you don't have to talk face-to-face with another living soul, and that's STILL too much trouble as far as some are concerned......
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