Visitor Parking is reserved; "I am not walking in the rain"; Wants an exception

[snugglegirl05]

Visitor Parking is reserved for an event today sponsored by the President's office. "Nancy" from the Parking office called me on Tuesday to let me know that I cannot let anyone not here for the President's event park in the garage. Then this morning "Shelly", who works in the President's office & who reserved the parking spots, drove up to the booth window & told me that the garage needs to stay clear for the President's event. There is a breakfast & a luncheon. Plus it is cold & raining outside. This information is important.

sucky female: "Hi, is this Visitor Parking?"
me: "yes it is, but it is closed for an event. What is the name of the event you are here for today."
sucky female: "I am not here for an event. I just need to drop off my transcript to Admissions."
me: "Unfortunately since the garage is closed for an event, I am not allowed to raise the entrance gate."
sucky female: "The garage is closed for an event!!??"
me: "yes, the garage is closed for an event"
sucky female: "So where do I park at?"
*I tell her where to park at*
sucky female: "Is there another university official I can speak to who will let me park? It is cold and raining outside. I am not walking in the rain. I will only be here for 5 minutes."
me: "I am not allowed to overrule my boss. I am sorry."
sucky female: "Can I speak to your boss?"

I call the Parking office. "Nancy" answers. I tell her why I am calling. I hand the phone over to the sucky female.

sucky female: "Hello. I am a former student, & I am here to drop off my transcript. I am being told that I cannot park in the garage because there is an event. It is cold and it is sleeting outside. I am not walking in the bad weather. Why can I not park?"
*"Nancy" tells her why*
sucky female: *looks annoyed* "I will only be here for 5 minutes"
*"Nancy" tells her she has to find other parking*
sucky female: *looks pissed* "I have to find other parking? Where?"
*"Nancy" tells her where to park*

She finally leaves.

[bainsidhe]

She might've only been parked for 5 minutes. But I've always wondered how long people are really parked when they say it'll just be a few minutes.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Bring a freaking slicker for crying out loud. She knows it's raining, it's not like she showed up to the place and lo and behold, it's raining there. It's raining everywhere. Prepare yourself to walk in it. How hard is that?

[Argabarga]

Reminds me of the person who blew up on me because I wrote her a ticket for not paying the parking meter she was parked at.

Apparently it was "unfair" for me to expect her to put money in the meter....
because it was snowing.....

At least that's what the nasty letter she sent us said, along with a cameraphone pic of it snowing, as if that proved her point.

[shenzee]

But I've always wondered how long people are really parked when they say it'll just be a few minutes.

I work for a rental company. We rarely tow off our parking lot, but the landlord who has the parking lot on the other side of our alley tows all the time. Yesterday a girl came in to get some info on our apartments; after she left the office she was back five minutes later asking if we towed her car. We didn't, and after asking a few questions I realized she had been parked in other landlord's lot. She claimed she had only been parked in the lot for about twenty minutes. A few questions later, I realized I had seen her car being towed when I came back from lunch. Three hours before! Twenty minutes my hind end!

[Argabarga]

I can tell you that most people who illegaly park swear up and down that they've only been there for "5 minutes" even the ones towed after 1 hour has elapsed, as proven by the tickets on the car. JUst last week I had a guy call the cops on us because he just would not believe that his car had been illegaly parked for 1 hour and 15 minutes before the tow truck showed up, he insisted it was "20 minutes tops" even when shown the ticket said cops had wrote, he just would'nt believe it. (and, it was at least another 20 minutes between when the car was towed and he called looking for it, total time, 1hr. 25 minutes)

I don't know wether they are bad judges of time, or when their in a "hurry" thier sense of time gets compressed (though you'd think that'd work the other way, claming an hour for five minutes instead of vice versa)

But I think the real reason is, they're SC's, they don't care about inconvenienceing others, they're entitled in thier mind, so any problems they cause are merely temporary, so "five minutes" is how much they see themsevles costing society, not the 1, 2 or even 3 hours they really did take up.