4th Time’s A Charm
No, you don’t need to have your vision checked – it is a $50 parking ticket. No yellow lines or handicap signs… 50 bucks just for not having a parking pass.
But I guess since I never bought the $500 parking pass I’m actually coming out $450 ahead. HAHA! Take that, suckas!
If you look carefully, you’ll notice the time was 10:12. When I turned on my car the clock said 10:13, no joke. I pulled up to the parking attendant and tried to reason with him since I was only parked there for 10 minutes, but he said there was nothing he could do about it. He said I could appeal it but I would need a better excuse than that [makes zigzag snapping motion].
Seriously though, this is my fourth ticket since I’ve been going to school here and it’s starting to get old. My appeals for the other tickets didn’t get them revoked, but I have a good feeling about this one. In the past, my fatal mistake has been telling the truth to the Parking Department. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.
Bearing this in mind, I have resolved to submit the best excuse I can come up with. I’ve listed some possibilities that others have suggested, but let me know if you have another one! Also let me know which one you think is best. This is one time your vote might actually count for something! (joking again)
I saw someone getting mugged so I pulled in and went
to help them.
I had explosive diarrhea and I didn’t want that stuff
in my car again.
I was putting groceries in my friend’s room and 5
minutes later I had a ticket.
I sprained my ankle and no one else could drive me
there.
I ran out of gas so someone helped me push it into a
spot and we went to the BP station.
I work for a company that goes to each campus
making sure their parking services are in good working order...and I know yours
is now.
posted by brien at
10/13/2004 02:09:00 AM
4 Comments:
you cant say no to diarrhea
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Anonymous, at 5:42 PM
Hmm.. Either no one reads my blog or no one cares... probably a combination of the two. Either way, I guess explosive diarrhea takes the cake. I’ll keep myself updated on the situation.
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brien, at 12:58 PM
Hmm.. Either no one reads my blog or no one cares... probably a combination of the two. Either way, I guess explosive diarrhea takes the cake. I’ll keep myself updated on the situation.
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brien, at 12:58 PM
I had one ticket this year. 50$ as well. I wrote them a letter and told them that I had borrowed the car to get to school, from my mother who was elderly, because I didn't have any bus-fare and neither did she, but she had gas and she drove to my house so that I could go to school and I rushed to school, forgetting about parking and scrounged fifty cents from the floors which paid for about 15 mintues and I went to class for those 15 minutes to write my exam, which was supposed to be two hours long, but I hurried through it so as to pass and make it out of the lot before the vultures ticketed me, but they did and I was a single mom living on less than 600 a month and that if they made me pay this ticket, which was worth half my power bill, I'd have to apply for social services and the tax payers would end up paying for it anyway, because my budget was air tight and they should be thankful that I wasn't on welfare and that I was trying to better myself and I didn't need an over-priced fine as a result of a parking monopoly by a bunch of greedy thugs would exploited starving students, anyway. I was relieved to find that the fine had been dismissed. Good Luck. It's definitely easier as a girl and almost magic as an angry-mom. ;)
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