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For three years at least, there's been an old vacant building downtown that used to house a national chain-burger kind of place that went out of business.
That has always fueled my belief that it was really a CIA-front, because in a college town like this, how on Earth can you go out of business if your one and only product is cheap food that most of your customers are only buying in the hopes it will kill a hangover anyway? Well, that's besides the point.
An enterprising individual recently bought said abandoned building and decided that NOBODY was going to be mooching his property for free parking. (The place had about 20 spaces) And instructed us to put up "PRIVATE PROPERTY" signs and start towing violators.
The signs went up last Monday, last-chance warnings were issued to violators, and the trucks started rolling Tuesday.
Guess how long it took for the whining to start as people started finding out that great "Free parking" place was no longer free nor for parking?
By Wednesday night I'd already had my first complaints alleging:
- "There were no signs!"
There are FOUR lights..... No, wait, I meant to say, there are four signs. Two on the building, front/back, and two in the lot, front and back entrances, and I supervised their installation personally. Nice try, well, at least by parking-mooch standards.
- "I've been parking there for 3 years and never been towed!
And now you have, first time for everything huh? Economics 101: Past performance is no guarantee of future return, some stocks can and do lose value.
And look on the bright side, $115 for 3 years of parking is a bargain, by my rough math, that works out to 11 cents a day!
-"It's ridiculous that you can't park at a building nobody is using!"
I gently tried to remind this gentleman that we live in a country where there's such a thing as private property, but he curtly informed me that he "knew that" , so why he had an issue, I don't know, maybe he was just testing me?
And tonight the REAL fun starts
Two words
HOMECOMING WEEKEND!
For three years at least, there's been an old vacant building downtown that used to house a national chain-burger kind of place that went out of business.
That has always fueled my belief that it was really a CIA-front, because in a college town like this, how on Earth can you go out of business if your one and only product is cheap food that most of your customers are only buying in the hopes it will kill a hangover anyway? Well, that's besides the point.
An enterprising individual recently bought said abandoned building and decided that NOBODY was going to be mooching his property for free parking. (The place had about 20 spaces) And instructed us to put up "PRIVATE PROPERTY" signs and start towing violators.
The signs went up last Monday, last-chance warnings were issued to violators, and the trucks started rolling Tuesday.
Guess how long it took for the whining to start as people started finding out that great "Free parking" place was no longer free nor for parking?
By Wednesday night I'd already had my first complaints alleging:
- "There were no signs!"
There are FOUR lights..... No, wait, I meant to say, there are four signs. Two on the building, front/back, and two in the lot, front and back entrances, and I supervised their installation personally. Nice try, well, at least by parking-mooch standards.
- "I've been parking there for 3 years and never been towed!
And now you have, first time for everything huh? Economics 101: Past performance is no guarantee of future return, some stocks can and do lose value.
And look on the bright side, $115 for 3 years of parking is a bargain, by my rough math, that works out to 11 cents a day! -"It's ridiculous that you can't park at a building nobody is using!"
I gently tried to remind this gentleman that we live in a country where there's such a thing as private property, but he curtly informed me that he "knew that" , so why he had an issue, I don't know, maybe he was just testing me?
And tonight the REAL fun starts
Two words
HOMECOMING WEEKEND!
Great Star Trek reference!
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