Yesterday I had to drive into downtown Seattle for work. I had to file some paperwork at the King County Courthouse. For those of you not from this area, let me describe downtown Seattle. While the streets running north south are not level, they aren't too bad, the east west streets on the other hand can be a nightmare. Thank goodness I don't have a manual transmission. Anyway, on top of that a majority of the streets are one way, and since a rarely venture to downtown, I can't keep them straight. Parking is a nightmare. You have 2 choices, pay an arm & a leg for a garage or lot, or drive around for hours hoping a street space opens up. Since my business was only going to take about 30 minutes, I didn't see the point in wasting my money. Fortunately, after driving around for about 20 minutes I found a spot. Now all I had to do was parallel park. Yay me, I did it flawlessly. Then I had to figure out the stupid new machines they have now instead of the old meters. You have to pay for up to 2 hours, then stick the reciept in your window. It takes coins & cards. I thought I had enough change. I wanted to get about 40 mins worth, figuring that would give me enough lee way with travel time. I came up about 10 minutes short with my change. Silly me, I'd just emptied my change into the jar at home, what I get I suppose. So, I used my card, problem is, I'd already hit print ticket, so this new transaction counts as new time, not extended time. But, I went ahead and purchased it. Better safe than sorry. I made it back in plenty of time for the first ticket of course. But, its still less than the 12 bucks I paid last time.
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dude! if you don't have kids w/ you, take the bus! i hate driving downtown.
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