Suffering from writers block, I visited Tumorboy and Scrabble Queen for a catch up chat. Scrabble Queen checked out my profile on findsomeone and gave it the two thumbs up, whilst Tumorboy told me of his run in with a Wilson Parking guy who was not nearly as intelligent as the parking booth he sat in. Seem's that a prominent Auckland hospital allows you a free 30 minutes on your parking ticket before charging - which I find remarkable - given the cost of parking in this city.
Anyhoo.... Tumborboy takes his car into said car park to find there are only 2 minute parks outside the hospital for dropping off patients. Not wanting to be towed he parks in the (only other) general car park only to be charged $3 when leaving 15 minutes later. Get this - the parking booth guy says that he gets charged $3 because he parked in the car park. When Tumorboy tells him about the 30 minute free parking sign at the entrance to the car park the Wilson parking guy says that he should have parked in the 2 minute parks - as no-one ever gets towed from them. He then said that Tumorboy obviously didn't understand the 30 minutes free parking sign. The mind boggles.
I told Tumorboy that he absolutely must right the wrong, and by some means get his $3 back from the Hospital in one way or another. There must be a Yin to their Yang. The balance of the universe relies on such things. Suggestions are welcome....
The conversation then flowed like beer at Octoberfest, witty observations abounded, followed quickly by a great many farcical comments: a great many topics were discussed. In between Tumorboys left-cheek-squeeks and in spite of the resulting ongoing howls of protests from Scrabble Queen, we managed to solve all the worlds woes. But for the life of me, as I headed home, all the solutions we had discussed had, like the snow at the end of winter, dissolved to mush. I do remember the best bits involved frogs tho.......
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