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Sat. involved a lot of morons. I'm going to relate the story of the idiot and the asshole. Now the idiot I can kind of sympathize with, except when she decided not to listen to me and keep on doing the wrong thing.
Idiot woman= IW
Asshole=Ah
=me
6pm is closing time at the library. Me and some coworkers (on the third floor) were waiting for one of the elevators to go to the first floor to "clock" out (no clock involved). As we are waiting for the elevator security escorts a guy to either the only elevator to go to parking or else to the stairs that leads to parking. This guy, for some reason has one of those orange extension cords, maybe 20 ft? 40 ft? I don't know, but I don't see why he as it. I don't see he has anything that needs an extention cord. Also, he isn't a repair guy, since they don't work on weekends, so I really have no idea what he is doing with itl.
We get to the first floor, and the manager on duty has us wait 5 min. to make sure everyone left.
We get to the parking garage by elevator. the elevator (and stairs) open out to a lobby, and the guard is telling people to give her their tickets, since there is no charge*. There is no way to get into the garage without going by the stairs or the elevator, unless you go a round about way of exiting on the first floor and walking down the garage ramp, but usually there's a guard around keeping people from parking in the garage close to closing time.
Anyway, me, coworkers and customers give the guard our tickets. We have to press the intercom at the station that we normally insert tickets to exit the garage.
So I go to my car and see the guy with the extention cord. Which is weird, since the guards escorted him out (to the elevator or stairs to the garage or first floor). Anyway, I get in my car and go toward the exit.
Now normally you pay at a machine in the garage lobby and at the exit you insert the ticket in a machine and the arm goes up and you can go out. But we are just pushing the intercom button to get the guard to raise the arm for us. There is a woman in a SUV trying to insert her ticket. I go up to her:
Me=Ma'm don't put your ticket in the machine, just press the intercom button and the guard will let you out.
IW=but that ticket was in the machine already! (she is really frazzled during this whole exchange. )
Me=ok, just forget the ticket and just press the intercom button.
IW=*garbled talk, goodness knows what she says but she sounds frazzled*
Me=just press the intercom button
IW=I didn't know I was suppose to do that!
Me=Ok, I'm telling you what to do, just do it.
IW=*finally press button*
Now when I pulled up behind this woman and got out of my car to help her, I see athe asshole with the extention cord, who was behind me, back up, go around me and the IW, and go up to the exit, right in front of the arm. I was expecting him ramming the arm, but he keeps on going back and forth, and finally backs up. Luckily he wasn't manuvouring to hit us. But as soon as the arm went up, he rockets out.
I go in my car, the frazzled woman goes up to the arm which went down, since it already let a car go. I press the intercom, the arm goes up, and I race to beat the arm. yah, I make it.
So I was wondering, why did that guy drive past us to the arm? Did he not know he didn't have to pay, so his usual behavoir when he's in a garage is to cut in in line to get out without paying? The guard was stopping everybody, but she was sitting at a desk, calling out to people. She wasn't going to run after people who didn't give her a ticket.
*for some reason the library decided not to charge people for using the garage right after hurricane Ike. The librarians received an email telling us Fri. was the last day for free parking for the public. We were surprised that the guards were told that Sat. was free parking also.
Idiot woman= IW
Asshole=Ah
=me6pm is closing time at the library. Me and some coworkers (on the third floor) were waiting for one of the elevators to go to the first floor to "clock" out (no clock involved). As we are waiting for the elevator security escorts a guy to either the only elevator to go to parking or else to the stairs that leads to parking. This guy, for some reason has one of those orange extension cords, maybe 20 ft? 40 ft? I don't know, but I don't see why he as it. I don't see he has anything that needs an extention cord. Also, he isn't a repair guy, since they don't work on weekends, so I really have no idea what he is doing with itl.
We get to the first floor, and the manager on duty has us wait 5 min. to make sure everyone left.
We get to the parking garage by elevator. the elevator (and stairs) open out to a lobby, and the guard is telling people to give her their tickets, since there is no charge*. There is no way to get into the garage without going by the stairs or the elevator, unless you go a round about way of exiting on the first floor and walking down the garage ramp, but usually there's a guard around keeping people from parking in the garage close to closing time.
Anyway, me, coworkers and customers give the guard our tickets. We have to press the intercom at the station that we normally insert tickets to exit the garage.
So I go to my car and see the guy with the extention cord. Which is weird, since the guards escorted him out (to the elevator or stairs to the garage or first floor). Anyway, I get in my car and go toward the exit.
Now normally you pay at a machine in the garage lobby and at the exit you insert the ticket in a machine and the arm goes up and you can go out. But we are just pushing the intercom button to get the guard to raise the arm for us. There is a woman in a SUV trying to insert her ticket. I go up to her:
Me=Ma'm don't put your ticket in the machine, just press the intercom button and the guard will let you out.
IW=but that ticket was in the machine already! (she is really frazzled during this whole exchange. )
Me=ok, just forget the ticket and just press the intercom button.
IW=*garbled talk, goodness knows what she says but she sounds frazzled*
Me=just press the intercom button
IW=I didn't know I was suppose to do that!
Me=Ok, I'm telling you what to do, just do it.
IW=*finally press button*
Now when I pulled up behind this woman and got out of my car to help her, I see athe asshole with the extention cord, who was behind me, back up, go around me and the IW, and go up to the exit, right in front of the arm. I was expecting him ramming the arm, but he keeps on going back and forth, and finally backs up. Luckily he wasn't manuvouring to hit us. But as soon as the arm went up, he rockets out.
I go in my car, the frazzled woman goes up to the arm which went down, since it already let a car go. I press the intercom, the arm goes up, and I race to beat the arm. yah, I make it.
So I was wondering, why did that guy drive past us to the arm? Did he not know he didn't have to pay, so his usual behavoir when he's in a garage is to cut in in line to get out without paying? The guard was stopping everybody, but she was sitting at a desk, calling out to people. She wasn't going to run after people who didn't give her a ticket.
*for some reason the library decided not to charge people for using the garage right after hurricane Ike. The librarians received an email telling us Fri. was the last day for free parking for the public. We were surprised that the guards were told that Sat. was free parking also.