{"id":152,"date":"2009-05-11T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/park-and-get-taken-for-a-ride.html"},"modified":"2017-07-01T14:21:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T19:21:13","slug":"park-and-get-taken-for-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/park-and-get-taken-for-ride.html","title":{"rendered":"Park and (Get Taken for a) Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was going to be a good soldier\/grad student and not blog about this, but when I examined my parking ticket from last week I saw how ridiculous it was.<\/p>\n

Here’s what happened. I had to go to the Student Health Center<\/a> to see my counselor (to get the Zoloft<\/a> for the depression<\/a> that being a grad student gave me). I also had to get to Ellis Library<\/a> so I parked at a parking garage between the two buildings, Virginia Avenue Parking Garage<\/a>. Sidenote: it’s layout is the mirror image of Hitt Street Garage<\/a>, which totally won’t lead to accidents…. Anyway I figured, like Hitt Street Garage, it will have paid parking on the upper floors. So I drive… and drive… and drive to the top floor. And… nothing. No meters. Well I’m now on the top floor of a six-floor parking garage. There are maybe 10 cars parked up there so they weren’t hurting for spaces. I have a schedule to keep so I decided to park up there.<\/p>\n

Obviously this story leads to me seeing the parking guy putting the ticket on my car after returning from the Library to check for just such an occurrence. I laugh it off (not his fault) and drove off to park in the Student Health Center parking.<\/p>\n

I get home and read the back of my ticket:<\/p>\n

\"Parking<\/div>\n

Sure, $25. I can stand to lose that. Times are tough<\/a>. The school needs money<\/a>. But hold on! There are a lot of offenses that are fined less than $25. Let’s see what I could’ve done instead of parking at the top floor of a barren garage blocks away from the Library, and saved a few dollars:<\/p>\n