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Methinks You Had Too Much Faith in the Alarm
-Friendly Neighborhood Towing, LTR speaking
-You just towed my car from Cram-a-Grad apartments!
-Blue Mercedes C230? Maryland tags?
-Yes! Why didn’t you stop when the alarm went off?
-Excuse me?
-I heard the alarm go off, so I looked out the window and your guy was standing there next to the car, with the alarm going off, and he still towed it!
-Well it didn’t have a permit to be there
-You didn’t stop because of the alarm?
-No, why would we?
-Well, the alarm was clearly going off.
-Yes, yes it was, I think it still is come to think of it, but don’t worry, it’ll shut off by itself eventually.
-You towed a car with the alarm on?
-Yep, no reason we can’t, heck, I’ve towed back cars with the engines still running.
The conversation got real quiet after that.
Karma Came A-Knocking!
There’s one person who’s been pissing me off quite a bit around here lately. A quintessential spoiled brat with a Lexus RX350 with a vanity tag (Her first name, “LACI”, how original) who likes to visit her boyfriend at his apartment all the time, and feels it beneath her to get a parking pass. Problem is, her boyfriend lives on the ground floor of the building, so it’s impossible to tow her car because every time you pull into the lot, even the quietest truck in the fleet makes enough racket that he hears you coming and jumps out the window and stands between the truck and her car until she can hop in it and take off. The lot is monitored by people from the apartment, and they’ve put dozens of tickets on this car, but because we can’t actually get it towed, we can’t collect on those tickets, and she knows it. The last time we tried, she smirked as she drove off telling us “you’ll never get me so you should just give up”.
Well, with the economy being as rough as it’s been the last few years, a few of the smaller property companies in this town have gone out of business and sold their interests to some of the larger companies. As a result, we’ve picked up a few extra lots this fall we didn’t have before.
One of them is where SHE lives.
We just started towing from there last night
Guess who can’t get her car back until she pays over $290 in delinquent tickets?
Yup.
Does anyone even know what honesty is anymore?
So for the past 2 weeks, there’s this crazy lady I towed (well, got a drop out of) who keeps calling in wanting to know when they’re going to discipline me for having a “sarcastic attitude” that she didn’t appreciate. The only thing I remember about the call was after she paid the $60 she asked me if I liked my job, I told her I loved it. Ever since then, she’s been calling.
-Friendly Neighborhood Towing, LTR speaking
-You just towed my car from Cram-a-Grad apartments!
-Blue Mercedes C230? Maryland tags?
-Yes! Why didn’t you stop when the alarm went off?
-Excuse me?
-I heard the alarm go off, so I looked out the window and your guy was standing there next to the car, with the alarm going off, and he still towed it!
-Well it didn’t have a permit to be there
-You didn’t stop because of the alarm?
-No, why would we?
-Well, the alarm was clearly going off.
-Yes, yes it was, I think it still is come to think of it, but don’t worry, it’ll shut off by itself eventually.
-You towed a car with the alarm on?
-Yep, no reason we can’t, heck, I’ve towed back cars with the engines still running.
The conversation got real quiet after that.
Karma Came A-Knocking!
There’s one person who’s been pissing me off quite a bit around here lately. A quintessential spoiled brat with a Lexus RX350 with a vanity tag (Her first name, “LACI”, how original) who likes to visit her boyfriend at his apartment all the time, and feels it beneath her to get a parking pass. Problem is, her boyfriend lives on the ground floor of the building, so it’s impossible to tow her car because every time you pull into the lot, even the quietest truck in the fleet makes enough racket that he hears you coming and jumps out the window and stands between the truck and her car until she can hop in it and take off. The lot is monitored by people from the apartment, and they’ve put dozens of tickets on this car, but because we can’t actually get it towed, we can’t collect on those tickets, and she knows it. The last time we tried, she smirked as she drove off telling us “you’ll never get me so you should just give up”.
Well, with the economy being as rough as it’s been the last few years, a few of the smaller property companies in this town have gone out of business and sold their interests to some of the larger companies. As a result, we’ve picked up a few extra lots this fall we didn’t have before.
One of them is where SHE lives.
We just started towing from there last night
Guess who can’t get her car back until she pays over $290 in delinquent tickets?
Yup.
Does anyone even know what honesty is anymore?
So for the past 2 weeks, there’s this crazy lady I towed (well, got a drop out of) who keeps calling in wanting to know when they’re going to discipline me for having a “sarcastic attitude” that she didn’t appreciate. The only thing I remember about the call was after she paid the $60 she asked me if I liked my job, I told her I loved it. Ever since then, she’s been calling.
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