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I said "across the street" not "across the continent"
As I've mentioned before, one of the apartment complexes we tow from is across the street from us. Literally. We're on one side of this street, on the other side is a small retail shop right along the sidewalk, and directly behind that, is the apartment. Break out the tape measure and I doubt it's more than 60 yards.
If I stand at the glass door of our garage and wave, you can probably SEE ME from that apartment's parking lot. In fact, depending on what floor you're on, you might even be able to see over the fence and see your car in the impound lot after it gets towed away (oh the humiliation!).
So, naturally, despite being close enough we could probably signal to each other by wiggling our eyebrows in interesting ways, why am I not surprised it took me a good 5 minutes to explain to you HOW TO GET HERE?
"We're just across the street, you can walk over here right now and I'll get the door"
"I'm from out of town, I don't know where that is"
"We're across the street from you, that apartment is on one side of "This St" and we're on the other side"
"Look, I'm from out of town, I don't know where that is"
"If you're still at the apartment, just walk out the front door, "This St" is right in front of that complex's door, and if you look across the road, we're on the other side of the street, big sign out front, can't miss it"
"I.... I don't know where that is"
"Just cross the street! Walk out the door, cross the street in front of you, it's the main north-south street through town, you can't miss it, and we're on the other side"
"I... I'm from out of town, I don't know this area at all....."
You know that guy who recently jumped out of a balloon several miles above the surface of the Earth? Well, I'm glad it was him, and not this guy. I have serious doubts that he could jump and even manage to HIT THE PLANET.
He finally did come in, and then decided that he'd just leave it until the morning, since he didn't have anywhere to legally park it anyway.... I wonder if he made it back to his side alive? Is it wrong for me to have a mental image of him wandering through a sandy desert wasteland, barefoot, his clothes torn to tatters, his stubbled and sun-baked face a frozen mask of misery, as he begs fruitlessly for water..... water..... just a drop of water......... I'm from out of town!...
Because by now, that's sadly probably become his fate
Bonus Entitlement Smack-Down
This is why I love my job at times.
- I'm looking for my car, it's a Tan Camry, I think it got towed from 200 Woodland Place
- Tan Camry.... yes, I have one from that location, space #5, it will be $115 to pick up
- Can I ask WHY it was towed?
- You were called in for being illegally parked
- And just WHO called me in?
- The person who pays money every month to use spot #5, they came home and had no place to park.
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- Oh, ................... Uh.............. But I was............. nevermind I'll be in.
Good Boy!
As I've mentioned before, one of the apartment complexes we tow from is across the street from us. Literally. We're on one side of this street, on the other side is a small retail shop right along the sidewalk, and directly behind that, is the apartment. Break out the tape measure and I doubt it's more than 60 yards.
If I stand at the glass door of our garage and wave, you can probably SEE ME from that apartment's parking lot. In fact, depending on what floor you're on, you might even be able to see over the fence and see your car in the impound lot after it gets towed away (oh the humiliation!).
So, naturally, despite being close enough we could probably signal to each other by wiggling our eyebrows in interesting ways, why am I not surprised it took me a good 5 minutes to explain to you HOW TO GET HERE?
"We're just across the street, you can walk over here right now and I'll get the door"
"I'm from out of town, I don't know where that is"
"We're across the street from you, that apartment is on one side of "This St" and we're on the other side"
"Look, I'm from out of town, I don't know where that is"
"If you're still at the apartment, just walk out the front door, "This St" is right in front of that complex's door, and if you look across the road, we're on the other side of the street, big sign out front, can't miss it"
"I.... I don't know where that is"
"Just cross the street! Walk out the door, cross the street in front of you, it's the main north-south street through town, you can't miss it, and we're on the other side"
"I... I'm from out of town, I don't know this area at all....."
You know that guy who recently jumped out of a balloon several miles above the surface of the Earth? Well, I'm glad it was him, and not this guy. I have serious doubts that he could jump and even manage to HIT THE PLANET.
He finally did come in, and then decided that he'd just leave it until the morning, since he didn't have anywhere to legally park it anyway.... I wonder if he made it back to his side alive? Is it wrong for me to have a mental image of him wandering through a sandy desert wasteland, barefoot, his clothes torn to tatters, his stubbled and sun-baked face a frozen mask of misery, as he begs fruitlessly for water..... water..... just a drop of water......... I'm from out of town!...
Because by now, that's sadly probably become his fate
Bonus Entitlement Smack-Down
This is why I love my job at times.
- I'm looking for my car, it's a Tan Camry, I think it got towed from 200 Woodland Place
- Tan Camry.... yes, I have one from that location, space #5, it will be $115 to pick up
- Can I ask WHY it was towed?
- You were called in for being illegally parked
- And just WHO called me in?
- The person who pays money every month to use spot #5, they came home and had no place to park.
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- Oh, ................... Uh.............. But I was............. nevermind I'll be in.
Good Boy!
Of course, that's a different sort of towing...
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