I AM FURIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

from JoeUser Forums
So I get home from doing 7 hours of laundry, am exhausted, and need to open at work tommrow..... All I can think of at 10:45pm is sleep....

Pull in to my crappy alley parking lot that we pay 80dollars a month to park in and what do I see................ Someone is parked in my spot. STUPID FUCKERS. So I have to go and call to get their car towed... and sit in my car, until the tow truck comes.

I live in downtown Minneapolis, and to park on street I would have to walk four or more blocks, through a seedy area. (This is why i pay for parking)

The tow truck is 5 minutes away...... and out come three teenage assholes... the first thing I here out of their mouth is "Sweet, your car is still here."

I flip out. I get out of my car and stand and front of them.

"Did you park your car in number 3?'

"It's a possibility", a extra stupid looking one with a mohawk says.

I go off about how I have now sat in my car for over an hour, so their car could be towed out of the spot that I pay a lot of money to park in.... and so on.

They walk to their car, and all I hear is, "what a bitch".

I'm the bitch? You just wasted my time late at night, when I needed to sleep.

As they pull away, the parking guy comes out, and tells me he hates when they leave before the tow comes, because they would of had to pay $220.


GRRRRRRRRR.... Knowing those assholes where out 220 bucks would have made my night. Instead they got to drive away, and I lost an hour of sleep. Stupid fuckers.


"
misc
10,566 views 21 replies
Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
You have every right to be pissed. Is there any sort of recourse you can get for that? Does anyone monitor the parking lot to make sure that only the people who pay for a spot are using it?

Sorry about your sucky night.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
I hear ya. Don't blame you at all.

-A.
Offworld Trading Company
Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Nope The only thing that happens is if someone parks in your spot, you call a number and they send out a tow truck. Meanwhile as you wait for them to get towed, you have no where to park.
To park in a ramp, where it would be more monitered would cost us 320 dollars a month and we would have to walk 8 blocks to our building. (Which is no fun in 3 feet of snow)

I really want to buy a house and move NOW.....
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
That really sucks!

Maybe you should keep an icepick in your glovebox, thereby insuring they would still be there when the tow truck gets there. Nothing pops a tire like a good old fashioned ice pick!
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
How very annoying. I would've have been really pissed too.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Oh ,yeah, ...with you on this Janders

Over here in Oz, we have access to an extremely sticky "sticker" which shopping centres and the like use to deter illegal parking.

You stick it right in front of the drivers view on the winshield, and they're an absolute bugger to get off because they tend to rip into small pieces when you try to remove them.

So, not only do they get inconvenienced, ~they also have the embarrassment of other shoppers seeing them frantically trying to remove it.

I use them here at my backpacker hostel. I have a rear driveway and a parking space for my car and motorbike only (on the property), yet inconsiderate jerks are constantly parking across the driveway, preventing my coming or going anywhere.

Thing that sucks most though, is if I want to have a car towed I'm the one who has to pay, then take the jerk to court to try to recover the cost. The stickers help a lot, but I still get the problem at least two or three times a week.

People know they're parking illegally, but just dont give a rat's ass about their fellow citizens.

My local council refuses to address the issue too. Seen them about it at least a half dozen times, with no joy. Reckon I'll vote for them in the next elections? pffft!
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

i hate to do it, but i just can't help it... i am forever the devil's advocate... perhaps I should change my nick to that...


I can understand you being mad... I mean, really I do.  But THAT mad?  Mad enough to rant about it?  Sounds like someone needs to have a few of life's conveniences taken away for a while...  


There are a couple hundred thousand troops in the middle east right now that would LOVE to trade places with you... I know, cause I just got back from over there... and i gotta be honest with ya, there's not a lot that 'gets' to me... everyday i wake up and i'm just thankful for all the things I have... i don't waste time whining about things that aren't going my way.  Now i'm sure that within the next few months i'll return to the 'old' me, but for now i'm just thankful to have a bathroom across the hall from my bedroom...


things weren't so simple 2 weeks ago.

Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Janders:

I feel your frustration. It happens to me all the time as well. The point is, I don't pay every month so that someone else can park in my space. I too have them towed. Fortunately for me, I have a deal with my landlord that if some is parked in my space I can park illegally in the back of the building and he won't tow me, so i dont have to wait for the tow truck. I give warnings. A polite note reading "I pay for this spot, you do not. Don't park here again or you will be towed" gets affixed to their windshield on the first offense. After that, I tow. One person had the nerve to "dare" me to tow them...yup, that was a stupid move.

And, not that I promote illegal activities...but when we were little, my parents managed a hotel on the beach and people would illegally park in the lot loads of times. After a while my father got fed up with repeatedly warning people, day in a day out. Instead, he took the cap off the tire, put a little stone in it, and replaced the cap. The driver gets a flat tire, but not until they are miles away and have no idea how or why it occured. Now, I'd say revenge like this should be saved for people who don't learn their lesson after REPEATED warnings...but sometimes revenges tastes sweet.
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Let it all out Janders... we all feel your pain... no one likes teenage punks

BAM!!!
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top

I can understand you being mad... I mean, really I do. But THAT mad? Mad enough to rant about it? Sounds like someone needs to have a few of life's conveniences taken away for a while...


MJ, get off your high horse.  That was unnecessary, and to be honest, borderline trolling.  If you were in Jander's situation I'd expect to see you blogging about it as well....as a matter of fact, I've seen articles about lesser things than this coming from your blog in the past.


Janders:  can you park so that you block them in and prevent them from leaving?  That'd be my first move.  Block them in, then leave a note on their windshield telling them that you're returning the favor they did for you.  Letting their tires down is a good idea too, but bear in mind that they won't be able to go anywhere with a flat, thereby delaying your reclamation of your parking space.

Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
Letting their tires down is a good idea too, but bear in mind that they won't be able to go anywhere with a flat, thereby delaying your reclamation of your parking space.


hence the stone trick...the tires don't go flat until they've driven on them for a while...out of your hair and still causing them misery! (sometimes my vindictive side scares me!)
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
hence the stone trick...the tires don't go flat until they've driven on them for a while


That's why you use a tire gauge to let all the air out.

Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
Thank you everyone except Imagint for your comments, many made me laugh.

If I had been thinking I would have parked behind them so they couldn't get out. I guess hindsight is 20/20.
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
This is amazing! I don't know it to be a 100% true ...but maybe. Last night we did a gig in Milwaukee and after the show three teenagers walked in to Little Eddys Donut Shop where we always get together with the mayor and his wife after the show. I have a teenage daughter and I admit I always try to pick-up on 'teen conversations' whenever I can so to have something of interest to report to Maybeline, my daughter. Well, one of the kids said, " I shouldn't have called her a bitch." The other one brought up the fact," We were parked in her spot. Let's go back and appologize." Then the third one said, You know what...let's all meet tommorrow at the bitch's car and wash the thing before she gets up. Then we'll leave her a 'sorry note' on the windshield. What do you say, fellas?"
Now, I don't know if they were talking about the same incident or not, but it sounds like it to me. Was your car nice and clean the next morning? Teens are often so misunderstood these days. By the way, I noticed as they left the donut shop that there were BUSH/CHENY bumper stickers on the car's bumper. Does that ring a bell?
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
~ Not likely

A sorry note would have made my day.... It would showed they actually cared that they really upset me...

Nice little story...........................
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
Good to see you laughing. Let the Spirit move you. Sweet dreams.
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
You too!
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
If you're truly mean you could partially deflate all 4 wheels, in such way it's little bit low, but not noticable. They will end up paying lot more money to gas till they notice it and inflate it to full pressure again. That kind of thing also damages tires.
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
All these suggestions are grand.... but I am a good girl! Illeagal activities will most likely never be done by me. Not to mention I don't want the bad karma that comes with damaging someones property..


But I still like all the ideas!
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
Janders,

Well, with winter coming on I can tell you exactly what to do in the middle of winter...

Jes' a leetle bit of water...it'll sink to the bottom of the tank and freeze up in the lines.

Upper Midwest winters have to be good for something, right?