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Parking Sucks

// November 22nd, 2009 // LA Done Me Wrong

“Parking sucks in LA!!!!” is an understatement.  I recently got my car towed in Los Angeles and what a delight that was!  No sucking there.  Thursday night I drove around my friend’s block three times to finally find a space on Sunset Boulevard that read “Anti-Gridlock Zone, No parking 4am-7am, 4pm-7pm Monday through Friday.”  It also had another sign that read “2 hour parking 9am-8pm daily.”  Now, for some reason in my tired of driving around exhausted head I thought it was Friday and hence tomorrow would be Saturday and I could then park till 9am the next morning. 

 

Well, was I tragically wrong.  The next day I walked out of my friend’s apartment at 8:45am and approached Sunset Boulevard right where the library is near La Brea.  Sadly, my car had vanished.  I called 311, the number on the sign and was on hold then talked to two different people, one who actually gave me the number to the towing place.  So I called them and found out I could pay $240 to retrieve my car.  I wanted to cry.  So I did.  I sat on the sidewalk near the library and cried like a baby.  I called my friend Nova in Colorado to tell her the tragic story.  Some old Armenian man stopped by the library to drop off his books, staring at my tear-wet face.  I don’t blame him.

 

So I then, delightfully I went to pickup my car.  I walked the mile or so to Highland and Santa Monica.  I asked the lady if there was any way I could pay less.  Looking at my smudged face she had some compassion on me and dropped the $33 per day fee which was really awesome of her.  My car had only been there for less than two hours anyway.  So I paid $207 on my debit card, my heart sinking into my feet. 

 

I was led upstairs to retrieve my motor-vehicle and I had a ticket on my windshield for $148!  For Christ’s sake, they already got the towing fee which is $100 that goes to the City of Los Angeles!  Obviously it’s not enough for the City of Los Angeles to knock you down.  They wanna kick you while you’re lying on the ground.  I cried all the way down La Brea Blvd.  Anyway, I’ll never make that $355 mistake again.  Hopefully you’ll never make it.  Boo on LA.