Our new apartment manager, Mr. Fonts&Colors (any guesses what his memos look like?), has decided that it will be easier on everyone if he restricts parking in our parking lots to residents only. Aparently, they’ve had trouble with a couple of families either storing friends’ cars on our lots, or letting other people live with them and park in the parking lot, or something similar.<\/p>\n
So this morning I had to go during the newly restricted office hours (seriously? you don’t open until 10? Do you think most of your residents don’t have jobs?) and sign several papers in order to receive my brand new parking permit. He had to take down my car information (which, by the way, I’ve supplied three prior times… apparently record keeping is not as fun as font-full and colorful memo creation) and file my signature and permit number and various other things with all the other things on file about me there.<\/p>\n
All of this record generation and file reorganization gave me ample time to contemplate the ironic reasoning behind these extreme new procedures. Rather than talk to these few offenders, Fonts&Colors has made us all register our cars and receive permits to park in front of our buildings. He will now hire parking attendants who, beginning next month, will circulate the parking lots keeping an eagle eye out for non-permitted cars and promptly calling to have these cars towed. He will also issue visitor permits to residents who, heaven forbid, have people in their lives who like them enough to come visit. And because I caused a stink, he will also give me my very own temporary permits to hand out to my weekly dinner guests.<\/p>\n
That sounds like less work than talking a couple of residents. Totally worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our new apartment manager, Mr. Fonts&Colors (any guesses what his memos look like?), has decided that it will be easier on everyone if he restricts parking in our parking lots to residents only. Aparently, they’ve had trouble with a couple of families either storing friends’ cars on our lots, or letting other people live with … Continue reading Permitted<\/span>