All pay parking =/= free parking

[snugglegirl05]

Guy drives up to the Visitor parking booth window & asks me how much the fee is. I tell him it is $5.00 to park. Then the following exchange took place.

guy: "I do not have any cash. I am only here to pick up my transcript."
me: "It is all pay parking around here."
guy: "So where can I park where I do not have to pay?"



me: Well..if it is all pay parking around here then that means it is all pay parking, & so there is no free parking around here."
guy: "oh..really?!"
me: "Correct"



guy: "Can I pay with my credit card?"
me: "Yes...& you pay at the Parking office on the 3rd floor."

I sent him there hoping the Parking office staff would knock some sense into his head.

[Argus]

guy: "So where can I park where I do not have to pay?"

If I had to deal with that question on a regular basis, I'd be tempted to identify the closest free parking for such answers, whether that be "X Mall" or "the next town" or whatever.