i hate the freaking LA parking violations bureau
listennnnnnn. i understand. someone has to do the job. hate the game not the players. obvi. like it’s not the fault of people who have to enforce parking rules within a city that is overpopulated and doesnt even have parking guaranteed when you’re going to the goddang doctor.
but. that being said.
SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR THE LOS ANGELES PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU ARE NOT GOOD PEOPLE!!!!! legend has it (my gf told me of this one time) that a burbank parking violations officer was SMILING while giving out tickets. one time i R A N down the block in the middle of a work shift to pay my meter WITHIN THE ONE SINGULAR MINUTE IT HAD EXPIRED and i arrived, out of breath, and said meep morp blah blah i work down the block please please please let me just pay my meter i am here!!!!! and this freaking. person. looked me in the eyes. and ripped. the ticket out of the the stupid thingy. and WHILE STILL MAKING EYE CONTACT. said. “too late.” and put that shit on my windshield.
so. all this to say. me and the LA parking violations bureau have some history and some mf beef. and last week me and my sweet sweet shnookums both got tickets in the amount of ,,, wait for it…,, NINETY (90) FIVE (5) DOLHAIRS ($$$$$). and i appealed it online which again lol i know the person reading this is not the person who is responsible for the System of Ticketing in Los Angeles but hey. The People must be heard someway somehow. so ya now i’m gonna share my cute lil note here as a psuedo-blog/mainly my way of screaming about this vendetta i have on the internet. (it is very drama bc of course we must go for the jugular).
My partner and I were in this neighborhood for a nearby surgery consultation. We were told, by the medical office, to park by these tennis courts. We did so and, after an exhuasting, disappointing meeting – in which we discovered the cost of surgery was too immense to afford at this time – we sat in the park nextdoor to try to cheer up. Upon returning to our parking, we were confused to find tickets, seeing as our minds were, understandably, very much elsewhere that day and we had not discerned there would be a change in the nature of the spots in the middle of the day. It was also shocking and upsetting to see that the fee was an exorbitant $95.00. My partner and I are both artists, and longtime residents of Los Angeles. We both have very good, safe driving records and I cannot see how it would be of sound logic to penalize us such a ridiculous fee for being parked in this location, which, on the day we were there, did not even seem to be used for whatever reason it was deemed a "no stopping zone." This is a fee that would stand for, at best, not serving the needs of this city's citizens and, at worst, sucking up their money with a complete lack of transparency. Please consider reducing this $95.00 fee, thank you for reading.
let me know if u have thoughts on this monologue or on parking in general or on what kind of thing u would wanna spend $95 on
+ if u have any parking trauma & if u live in LA i knoooow you do, pls feel free to like comment and subscribe. thx ttyl
