Comments on: Recent bits and pieces http://www.apartment2024.com/2007/11/18/recent-bits-and-pieces/ Food, family and synchronicity, in mostly equal parts Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:38:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: albert http://www.apartment2024.com/2007/11/18/recent-bits-and-pieces/#comment-65697 albert Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:20:35 +0000 http://www.apartment2024.com/2007/11/18/recent-bits-and-pieces/#comment-65697 when a person comes back to find a ppa agent writing a ticket and says that they know of the whole you can cancel the ticket, the ppa agent usually gets angry. i've seen this a few times. the parkers weren't being nasty, but adamant that they knew that was the case. the ppa agent was just an asshole about it. yes, if you're nice about things, you get nice treatment back, but when it's simply how the job works and you decide otherwise, that's bs. the ppa is a money-making mess of an organization. and all the agents are ninjas. ninjas i tell ya. when a person comes back to find a ppa agent writing a ticket and says that they know of the whole you can cancel the ticket, the ppa agent usually gets angry. i’ve seen this a few times. the parkers weren’t being nasty, but adamant that they knew that was the case. the ppa agent was just an asshole about it.

yes, if you’re nice about things, you get nice treatment back, but when it’s simply how the job works and you decide otherwise, that’s bs. the ppa is a money-making mess of an organization. and all the agents are ninjas. ninjas i tell ya.

]]> By: seadragon http://www.apartment2024.com/2007/11/18/recent-bits-and-pieces/#comment-65696 seadragon Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:09:22 +0000 http://www.apartment2024.com/2007/11/18/recent-bits-and-pieces/#comment-65696 Wow, I had no idea they could do that! They always tell you that once they start writing a ticket, they have to give it to you. That's definitely good to know. It's nice that she offered you that in response to you being reasonable about getting a ticket. (The thing about it being their job is that they are just so vigilant about it. I really wonder how much the city makes in parking tickets. In my neighborhood there is someone who literally walks around all day checking cars. He even has a notepad to keep track of which non-resident cars are where and for how long, so that he can ticket them if they are parked in the same spot for even slightly more than two hours.) As for the old guy, I would think you could still reach out to him, even if you don't use his name, right? Wow, I had no idea they could do that! They always tell you that once they start writing a ticket, they have to give it to you. That’s definitely good to know. It’s nice that she offered you that in response to you being reasonable about getting a ticket.

(The thing about it being their job is that they are just so vigilant about it. I really wonder how much the city makes in parking tickets. In my neighborhood there is someone who literally walks around all day checking cars. He even has a notepad to keep track of which non-resident cars are where and for how long, so that he can ticket them if they are parked in the same spot for even slightly more than two hours.)

As for the old guy, I would think you could still reach out to him, even if you don’t use his name, right?

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