Kinda want to hate the fact I never post anything really positive. I mean, the whole thing about Apple selling the $19.99 HDMI cable was kinda an attempt to start a new trend. Though in the end I guess I just want to be publicly bitter about stuff and private about the good stuff in my life.<\/p>\n
To that end, It would seem Park Atlanta<\/a> is really that bad. I mean, I have never used them until this one night… 20110804 just before 1800. I go through the process of giving them my credit card number before we even can talk about how much parking time I need and the cost. Even though getting a receipt is optional, I go ahead and get one even though the hippy in me cringes at “wasting” paper.<\/p>\n Head into Ri Ra<\/a> to hang out w\/ some friends I haven’t seen in a bit. Head out 2 hours and 10 mins later and find I have been ticketed. Not only is it before my chariot is turned back into a toaster, but the ticket says they have “incriminating” photos of my car being parked in a completely different space as the one it is clearly parked in.<\/p>\n Upon getting home and going to look at these “incriminating” photo’s, It seems you have to wait 7+ days for these to show up. Really? You have all this fancy networking, programming, meter’s tied to some network and it takes you 7 day’s to get pictures online? Ok, Fine… I digress…But… Here are my photo’s of my innocence<\/a> posted in 2 places less than a couple of hours later done manually.<\/p>\n Seeing as how they try to funnel you into paying them or reporting a broken meter, I finally found the single link on their site to dispute the ticket. Though just like the meter taking my credit card info before we even negotiate a sell, You are required to give up a bunch of personal information that isn’t needed to refute the ticket. I mean honestly, What is to stop some random meter maid falsely ticketing a car so they can gather all this personal information so they go visit the victim later in the “privacy” of the victim’s home? Maybe it is kinda\/almost fair that they at least put the meter maid’s first\/last name on the ticket also… Though I have no way to verify it was them really. Ok… I keep digressing. I know there are much bigger wrong’s in the world, but it all starts small.<\/p>\n Hopefully this can all be resolved over the phone and doesn’t require me to show up in person anywhere. If it doesn’t… I am sure the only way I can get there is I have to park in yet another one of their paid parking spaces, Miss work that I am paid by the hour for (or not if dealing w\/ this) and stand in some line w\/ 1 person working a window. With time of that costing me money way in the excess of what the fine is. Which circles back to how bad Park Atlanta<\/a> is… They basically have a open check book to ticket as many people as possible and see who is willing to just pay the fine instead of dealing w\/ the people at Park Atlanta<\/a> who obviously can not count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kinda want to hate the fact I never post anything really positive. I mean, the whole thing about Apple selling the $19.99 HDMI cable was kinda an attempt to start a new trend. Though in the end I guess I just want to be publicly bitter about stuff and private about the good stuff in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lamebusiness","category-myworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmokinglounge.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmokinglounge.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmokinglounge.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmokinglounge.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmokinglounge.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesmokinglounge.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/thesmokinglounge.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmokinglounge.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmokinglounge.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmokinglounge.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}