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little_tippler · 01-05-2006, 05:11 AM

ok here is my story. Not a speeding ticket, but a parking one. But it's interesting so bear with me. So one day I drive in to work and park on a busy avenue in Lisbon. I go to the meter and put in enough money to last me from 11 am till 14h30 pm. It is also a particularly windy day. I am rushed so put parking ticket on windscreen and grab my stuff, lock car and go to work. So at 14h30 pm I return to my car. My car has been blocked (I don't know what you call it in the States but it's when they put those things on your wheels to stop you going anywhere). And I'm like, WTF?! I have a parking ticket! So I look at my windscreen. The parking ticket is not there. So where is it? After looking a bit closer, the ticket is on my back seat, face down. So fair enough, that's why I got blocked that way. So I call them to unblock my car. Just that costs 30 € (25$ or so). So when they come to unblock my car, I show them where the ticket was and they say, yeah but it was facing down and that's why we had to, but you can appeal for the fine. Because there is also a 30 € fine which I can pay on the spot, for parking without paying. But I did pay. I have proof. So I decide to appeal. I write a letter with all the details, the ticket flew in the back because it really was a very windy day,( I have never had an accident or any of that in 6 years, only fine was a parking one), and the ticket to prove I wasn't trying to park without paying. When they reply, they tell me I have no proof that the ticket is mine, and that I was negligent because I didn't check my ticket was clearly visible - it's a goddam flyaway crappy little piece of paper and nothing is provided for people to stick it to the window, so what, I have to look at it over an over again to see it's there?!! (Now I triple check!). And also, because it had been so troublesome for them to reply to my letter, and it had made them waste so much time (yeah right), my fine was now 90 €!!!!!!!!!! (75 $ or so). So I paid up because I thought, that's enough of my money and time wasted right there, and I probably wouldn't get my money back if I tried anyway.

How's that for justice? Sheesh.

01-05-2006, 05:11 AM	#17 (permalink)
little_tippler Leaning against the -Sun- Super Moderator Location: on the other side	ok here is my story. Not a speeding ticket, but a parking one. But it's interesting so bear with me. So one day I drive in to work and park on a busy avenue in Lisbon. I go to the meter and put in enough money to last me from 11 am till 14h30 pm. It is also a particularly windy day. I am rushed so put parking ticket on windscreen and grab my stuff, lock car and go to work. So at 14h30 pm I return to my car. My car has been blocked (I don't know what you call it in the States but it's when they put those things on your wheels to stop you going anywhere). And I'm like, WTF?! I have a parking ticket! So I look at my windscreen. The parking ticket is not there. So where is it? After looking a bit closer, the ticket is on my back seat, face down. So fair enough, that's why I got blocked that way. So I call them to unblock my car. Just that costs 30 € (25$ or so). So when they come to unblock my car, I show them where the ticket was and they say, yeah but it was facing down and that's why we had to, but you can appeal for the fine. Because there is also a 30 € fine which I can pay on the spot, for parking without paying. But I did pay. I have proof. So I decide to appeal. I write a letter with all the details, the ticket flew in the back because it really was a very windy day,( I have never had an accident or any of that in 6 years, only fine was a parking one), and the ticket to prove I wasn't trying to park without paying. When they reply, they tell me I have no proof that the ticket is mine, and that I was negligent because I didn't check my ticket was clearly visible - it's a goddam flyaway crappy little piece of paper and nothing is provided for people to stick it to the window, so what, I have to look at it over an over again to see it's there?!! (Now I triple check!). And also, because it had been so troublesome for them to reply to my letter, and it had made them waste so much time (yeah right), my fine was now 90 €!!!!!!!!!! (75 $ or so). So I paid up because I thought, that's enough of my money and time wasted right there, and I probably wouldn't get my money back if I tried anyway. How's that for justice? Sheesh. __________________ Whether we write or speak or do but look We are ever unapparent. What we are Cannot be transfused into word or book. Our soul from us is infinitely far. However much we give our thoughts the will To be our soul and gesture it abroad, Our hearts are incommunicable still. In what we show ourselves we are ignored. The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged By any skill of thought or trick of seeming. Unto our very selves we are abridged When we would utter to our thought our being. We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams, And each to each other dreams of others' dreams. Fernando Pessoa, 1918 Last edited by little_tippler; 01-05-2006 at 05:14 AM..