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Almost all of the lots we tow from have no marked guest parking areas, if you are a guest of someone at that property, you get a guest/temporary permit from the rental office/agency, wherever it may be, and hang it up in your car.
This is because it's a proven fact that simply putting aside a section of your parking lot and declaring it "guest" means that total strangers will rapidly move into your lot like unwanted in-laws and stay for months on end, long after the word "guest" even in it's loosest definition had ceased to have any meaning.
There is however, one lot of ours where the old "honor system" of guest parking still holds true. Now, residents here have permits, but off to the one side in this lot are 3 guest parking spaces marked with signs on posts. All they say are "GUEST PARKING 24/7". There are no permits needed to park here, there are no time restrictions, there are no days-of-the-week restrictions. You can park anything you want here. I remember a car sitting there for a YEAR with NO LICENSE PLATES on it that was clearly abandoned and probably had a corpse with the first name of "Vinnie" in the trunk, we couldn't touch it. The residents here constantly called us to try and have it removed because they certainly had noticed that, discounting continental drift, it never moved. We sympathized, but could do nothing. We are not to touch this area. We are not to THINK about touching this area. This area might as well be the grounds of a foreign embassy. You could take Hitler's staff car for a joyride, force your grandma off the road with it, then run over a cute little puppy dog's tail with it, hold up a bank with it, drive too slow in the left hand lane with it and then park it here, and we could do NOTHING about it. This area is to tow trucks what kryptonite is to Superman.
So, that just begs the question, why, in the only area where our towing powers are useless, on a night where none of them were being used at all, did you forgo parking there, and TRIED PARKING IN THE RESIDENT SPACES WITH A FORGED PERMIT?????
And for God's sake, check a calender! Even if it hadn't been a laughably bad forgery, you wrote 8-31-2011 as the expiration date....... That was almost 2 months ago! You FORGED and EXPIRED permit...... that's a double negative, in math, that's a positive, but in real life (tm) it means you don't get your Mustang back until you cough up $105.
This is because it's a proven fact that simply putting aside a section of your parking lot and declaring it "guest" means that total strangers will rapidly move into your lot like unwanted in-laws and stay for months on end, long after the word "guest" even in it's loosest definition had ceased to have any meaning.
There is however, one lot of ours where the old "honor system" of guest parking still holds true. Now, residents here have permits, but off to the one side in this lot are 3 guest parking spaces marked with signs on posts. All they say are "GUEST PARKING 24/7". There are no permits needed to park here, there are no time restrictions, there are no days-of-the-week restrictions. You can park anything you want here. I remember a car sitting there for a YEAR with NO LICENSE PLATES on it that was clearly abandoned and probably had a corpse with the first name of "Vinnie" in the trunk, we couldn't touch it. The residents here constantly called us to try and have it removed because they certainly had noticed that, discounting continental drift, it never moved. We sympathized, but could do nothing. We are not to touch this area. We are not to THINK about touching this area. This area might as well be the grounds of a foreign embassy. You could take Hitler's staff car for a joyride, force your grandma off the road with it, then run over a cute little puppy dog's tail with it, hold up a bank with it, drive too slow in the left hand lane with it and then park it here, and we could do NOTHING about it. This area is to tow trucks what kryptonite is to Superman.
So, that just begs the question, why, in the only area where our towing powers are useless, on a night where none of them were being used at all, did you forgo parking there, and TRIED PARKING IN THE RESIDENT SPACES WITH A FORGED PERMIT?????
And for God's sake, check a calender! Even if it hadn't been a laughably bad forgery, you wrote 8-31-2011 as the expiration date....... That was almost 2 months ago! You FORGED and EXPIRED permit...... that's a double negative, in math, that's a positive, but in real life (tm) it means you don't get your Mustang back until you cough up $105.
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