Take that Imperial Parking Canada Corporation!!

Kicker774 · Post by **Kicker774** » 4/15/2009, 6:14 pm

Man am I a sweet talker.

On my most recent excursion to Toronto I got a parking ticket at my hotel.

I asked the attendant when I first got there if I could jsut pay for 3 days. No 24 Hour max. So I followed this procedure untill the last night when there were not attendants on duty.

Sweet Free Parking!

I get back to my car later the next day to find a parking ticket.
I call up the number and they tell me I was supposed to pay at the automated attendent and explained politely to him that:

A. I never saw an automated machine because I always paid the attendant at the booth.

B. What sense does it make to have both a lot attendent AND an automated machine?

C. I'm just a bewildered tourist. Where I'm from you either have an attendant or it's free parking.

So after 10 minuted on hold the person on the phone cut the ticket from $40 to $15.

SWEET $5 off my last day of parking!!

Yes I realize I am taking away from Torontos tax base but I figure it's all good since I didn't bother to reclaim the nickel and dime GST/PST taxes at the border.

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 4/15/2009, 8:04 pm

honestly, you should've gotten it for free

Kicker774 · Post by **Kicker774** » 4/15/2009, 8:11 pm

Pay to Park alone is one of the biggest gips in any city.

Perhaps maybe just surfcae lots. I can understand it takes money to build a large 10 story parking deck.

But $20 a night to park my car at my hotel where I'm already forking out $120 a night for their shoebox of a room?

Eff that.

While I'm bitching $1.75 for a local call lasting no more than 6 rings and an answering machine is complete BS.

laurel · Post by **laurel** » 4/15/2009, 10:10 pm

you need better hotel finding skills, methinks.

Kicker774 · Post by **Kicker774** » 4/15/2009, 11:29 pm

This is a possibility now that I know how to take the subway and where the stops are.

I really like how the stations were clearly marked outside and you could understand the driver when they announced the stops.

When I took the subway with Nikka in Philla all I herd was a muffled voice not unlike Charlie Browns school teacher. *Wa Wah Wah Wahhh Wahh*

Dr. Hobo · Post by **Dr. Hobo** » 4/16/2009, 6:34 am

no offense intended but this thread (well the part about subways at least) makes that story about the dogs in moscow riding the subway to get around even more impressive :nod:

although im still not entirely sure if its a hoax or not

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 4/16/2009, 6:41 am

Kicker774 wrote:When I took the subway with Nikka in Philla all I herd was a muffled voice not unlike Charlie Browns school teacher. *Wa Wah Wah Wahhh Wahh*

That's PATCO! :love:

beautiful liar · Post by **beautiful liar** » 4/18/2009, 9:40 am

the subway voice has a name?! crazy.

Kicker774 · Post by **Kicker774** » 4/18/2009, 10:01 am

TTC doesn't count as a name?

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 4/18/2009, 4:36 pm

beautiful liar wrote:the subway voice has a name?! crazy.

Well... technically yeah... because it's not automated, the drivers say each stop over the loudspeakers themselves.

PATCO trains haven't been updated since the 1960s. :mrgreen:

Shanae · Post by **Shanae** » 4/18/2009, 9:09 pm

We never have to pay for parking in our village. *Fist pump.* Hurray for small places that don't make the map!

Kicker774 · Post by **Kicker774** » 4/18/2009, 10:33 pm

How much is real estate around there?
I'll have to buy your parking lots so I can put up a booth and charge money for people to park.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 4/18/2009, 11:47 pm

Now that sounds like a plan!!

myownsatellite · Post by **myownsatellite** » 4/19/2009, 8:30 am

nikki4982 wrote:
beautiful liar wrote:the subway voice has a name?! crazy.

Well... technically yeah... because it's not automated, the drivers say each stop over the loudspeakers themselves.

PATCO trains haven't been updated since the 1960s.

*robotic feminine soothing voice* Mind the gap!

beautiful liar · Post by **beautiful liar** » 4/19/2009, 8:54 am

nikki4982 wrote:
beautiful liar wrote:the subway voice has a name?! crazy.

Well... technically yeah... because it's not automated, the drivers say each stop over the loudspeakers themselves.

PATCO trains haven't been updated since the 1960s.

see, when you said "that's PATCO" i thought you were referring to the voice, not the train system itself :lol:

although i do enjoy non-automated systems - drivers can say some funny things. i remember this one time on a GO train, the driver said "Mimico this stop. if you're getting off here, i'm sorry." i thought that was hilarious, but i was also 10 at the time.

reza · Post by **reza** » 4/19/2009, 10:02 am

Does your car have non-Ontario plates? If so, then they won't pursue you once you leave. They were talking about that on the radio a few days ago.

Kicker774 · Post by **Kicker774** » 4/19/2009, 10:40 am

Ohio plates.
Wasn't concerned about the tracking me down really. But for future purposes no need to have a strike on myself in the system.

Shanae · Post by **Shanae** » 4/19/2009, 12:10 pm

Kicker774 wrote:How much is real estate around there?
I'll have to buy your parking lots so I can put up a booth and charge money for people to park.

...parking lots? We don't have parking lots, silly.

Kicker774 · Post by **Kicker774** » 4/19/2009, 1:30 pm

Then where do you park your cars?

... You do have cars right?

I mean it's not like you ride your Moose to Canadian Tire.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 4/19/2009, 2:35 pm

Maybe they do!!! That'd be sweet. I want a moose.

beautiful liar wrote:although i do enjoy non-automated systems - drivers can say some funny things. i remember this one time on a GO train, the driver said "Mimico this stop. if you're getting off here, i'm sorry." i thought that was hilarious, but i was also 10 at the time.

That's freaking GREAT.