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Illuminati, I Work For Thee!
So, guy we've towed multiple times got towed yet again the other day and wanted to know why we kept "Following him around"
Wondering what he meant, I inquired further and it turned out that he was of the opinion that we MUST be following him around day and night, just waiting for him to park so we could then take his car. His logic being he's parked at this one apartment 3 times, and been towed 3 times, even though he only goes in for 15 minutes at a time. So obviously, we just wait in the hedgerows and swoop in to take his car the instant he gets out of it, even though we "know" he's only dropping things off and won't be long, so we're just "hassling" him and it's not fair.
I patiently explained that the fact he keeps using the HANDICAPPED space at the building, which is an immediate on-sight tow, and that he has NO RESIDENT PERMIT, might have something to do with it. But he refused to believe it was something so simple as illegal parking, it was because we were out to get him!
Conspiracy, ha, how cute.... what a notion.. .excuse me......
Drat, we've been burned. Eagle One to Mother Hen, Eagle One to Mother Hen, we're compromised, execute contingency Archimedes! I authenticate, one one seven six five tango, out.
I'm sorry, were you saying something, sir?
Batting .000
Guy calls looking for a car
His buddies car
he borrowed it, and now it's not where he left it.
He doesn't know the make
He doesn't know the model
He doesn't know the color
He doesn't know where he left it
He wants to know if we have it
I want to know if it's too early in the day to start drinking straight from the bottle.
Training Day
So, I was training a new guy the other night. Showing him around the lots and whatnot, and the tricks of the trade, which places the truck can fit into, which places it won't, how to dodge a beer bottle coming from a 5th floor balcony, etc.
We pull into a lot and I see a car with a temp pass hanging from the rearview mirror instead of the usual resident window stickers. Oooh, learning experience time! So we both get out of the truck and I walk over and put my flashlight to the permit.
"This is what a temp pass in this lot looks like, it will have the name of the complex written on the top, and the dates its good for on the bottom... and ... "
Hey, wait a sec, this one's no good! It's a fake! You can see the scissor marks around the circular part where it goes around the rearview, and, the one corner has gotten damp and it's started to peel away from the backing... backing it shouldn't have. Turns out he glued his fake to the top of what was a long-expired original.
I point these flaws out to the new guy and explain that those 2 red flags are easy ways to spot a forgery. Noticing the car next to the forgers also has a temp pass in it, I step over and point to it.
"See, on a real one, they'll look......."
Wait a sec, THIS ONES FAKE TOO!!! Wrong in the same ways as the first
So they both got towed. I'm hoping there's at least one REAL temp pass out there though, otherwise, how's the new guy going to learn what they really look like?
So, guy we've towed multiple times got towed yet again the other day and wanted to know why we kept "Following him around"
Wondering what he meant, I inquired further and it turned out that he was of the opinion that we MUST be following him around day and night, just waiting for him to park so we could then take his car. His logic being he's parked at this one apartment 3 times, and been towed 3 times, even though he only goes in for 15 minutes at a time. So obviously, we just wait in the hedgerows and swoop in to take his car the instant he gets out of it, even though we "know" he's only dropping things off and won't be long, so we're just "hassling" him and it's not fair.
I patiently explained that the fact he keeps using the HANDICAPPED space at the building, which is an immediate on-sight tow, and that he has NO RESIDENT PERMIT, might have something to do with it. But he refused to believe it was something so simple as illegal parking, it was because we were out to get him!
Conspiracy, ha, how cute.... what a notion.. .excuse me......
Drat, we've been burned. Eagle One to Mother Hen, Eagle One to Mother Hen, we're compromised, execute contingency Archimedes! I authenticate, one one seven six five tango, out.
I'm sorry, were you saying something, sir?
Batting .000
Guy calls looking for a car
His buddies car
he borrowed it, and now it's not where he left it.
He doesn't know the make
He doesn't know the model
He doesn't know the color
He doesn't know where he left it
He wants to know if we have it
I want to know if it's too early in the day to start drinking straight from the bottle.
Training Day
So, I was training a new guy the other night. Showing him around the lots and whatnot, and the tricks of the trade, which places the truck can fit into, which places it won't, how to dodge a beer bottle coming from a 5th floor balcony, etc.
We pull into a lot and I see a car with a temp pass hanging from the rearview mirror instead of the usual resident window stickers. Oooh, learning experience time! So we both get out of the truck and I walk over and put my flashlight to the permit.
"This is what a temp pass in this lot looks like, it will have the name of the complex written on the top, and the dates its good for on the bottom... and ... "
Hey, wait a sec, this one's no good! It's a fake! You can see the scissor marks around the circular part where it goes around the rearview, and, the one corner has gotten damp and it's started to peel away from the backing... backing it shouldn't have. Turns out he glued his fake to the top of what was a long-expired original.
I point these flaws out to the new guy and explain that those 2 red flags are easy ways to spot a forgery. Noticing the car next to the forgers also has a temp pass in it, I step over and point to it.
"See, on a real one, they'll look......."
Wait a sec, THIS ONES FAKE TOO!!! Wrong in the same ways as the first
So they both got towed. I'm hoping there's at least one REAL temp pass out there though, otherwise, how's the new guy going to learn what they really look like?
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