Busted!

Well, I got busted today at work. My reign of abuse has come to an end.

I’ve been parking at the Bone Student Center parking lot this winter (and during a lot of the fall too). I had been using my office’s parking pass to get out of the lot for free.

Keyword: had.

This past Monday I drove to work and caught a ride home with Lizzy instead of driving back myself (not that I’m blaming you here, Lizzy… ) I went to bed and work up suddenly around 2:30 am, realizing that I left my truck at the office. Crap. There was no way I was gonna get up, get dressed, and get my butt over to the lot to get the truck at this hour. Fifteen dollar fine, here I come. With that thought I went back to sleep.

At this point it’s rather important to note that I forgot my ATM card at home and haven’t had it with me for about a week. The reason this is important is that I had like all of 34 cents on my person.

I left work on Tuesday and being broke, had to use the parking pass to get out of the Bone again. However, since I had parked overnight, someone in parking services got a note. This morning my boss got a call about me using the parking pass for getting out of the Bone. After he got a call, I got a call from the same parking person. Apparently using a 3-hour pass to park for 7.5 hours a day is bad or something, and I shouldn’t have been doing that. Shame on me. She told me I would have to pay the 80-cent-an-hour parking fee today to get my truck out of the lot, as Ranger Gord the Ford has now been blacklisted for using a parking pass!

I casually mentioned that I would just wait until the lot closed to get my truck out of the lot (it’s a pretty common occurrence for students and staff to do this).

I don’t think this was the answer the parking administrator was looking for. She mentioned something about “not supporting the university” and seemed a little peeved that I didn’t learn any lesson.