Return of teh Parking Nazis
I hate parking tickets. I spent over $300 of my Student Loan money paying the Georgia Tech Parking Nazi’s for violations in addition to the $1000+ I spent on parking permits. My last year at Tech I found out that you can park on 8th street for free–as long as you don’t mind your car almost being stolen, and after the construction around the TSRB they opened up the Holy Grail of parking spots. There were six of them right outside the TSRB; open for those who can stand getting up at obscenely early times of the morning and showing up before everyone else. Alas, good things only last so long. They eventually limited those spots to 2 hour parking, which resulted in me accruing two tickets both because I fell asleep in the lab and forgot to move my car. I tried for nearly a month to pay those cursed things using the City of Atlanta’s online service, and my tickets never showed up in their system. I assumed they were forgotten, or that the officer didn’t turn them in.
Bad assumption. I got a letter from the municipal court of Atlanta stating that I have to pay both tickets with additional $25 late fees or they will impound my car. This has rekindled my hatred of all things related to parking violations. Don’t get me wrong I respect the police, I just wish they would find something better to do than ticket me, not allow me to pay the ticket, then harass me about not paying the ticket.