Today, I parked my car in a garage that cost $13 for every 10 minutes past 10 o'clock. When I came back to the garage at 10, I had forgotten where I parked it and spent an hour looking for it. I paid $78 to lose my car. FML
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Today, I searched for free parking near my work for 30 minutes, trying to avoid paying $12 at a pay lot. I scored a spot, but 1 mile away from the office. I trekked through rain, cold, and got to work late. It was a long hard day, crawled back to my car, and had a $30 ticket on my windshield. FML
Today, I walked ten miles to pick up my car from the towing station. Turns out there was enough change for the parking meter in the glovebox after all. FML
Today, I received a parking fine for $147. My car isn't even worth that much. FML
Today, I finally found a parking space directly outside my apartment after driving around for 20 minutes. I celebrated, parked, and walked upstairs. Ten minutes later, I realized I'd left my car running with the keys still inside. FML
Today, I offered to drive my friends to the airport because their taxi was expensive. We left early and arrived with plenty of time. Then I realized I’d parked in the short-stay car park. I paid more for parking than I would have paid for a taxi. FML
Today, I went to pay my vehicle registration in person to avoid paying the $10.00 online service fee. After a long wait, I came out to find a $15.00 parking ticket on my car. FML
Today, I finished my shopping at Costco, and realized I'd forgotten where I had parked. After scouring the parking lot for 20 minutes, I called the police and filed a report for a stolen vehicle. I then remembered I had bought a new car yesterday and parked it right next to the entrance. FML
Today, I dropped my car keys down the elevator shaft at my dorm. I had parked my car at a parking meter, and now had no way to get change out of my car. It took six hours for someone to get my keys, and I now have a $75 parking ticket. FML
Today, I decided not to park in the parking garage on campus, in an attempt to save the $8 it would have cost me. Instead, I parked in a surface lot (about a mile away) and got a $50 parking ticket for not having a permit to park there. FML
Today, my truck got towed after being parked for ten minutes, even though wasn't in a no parking area. Now I have to pay 500 dollars to get it out of impound. FML
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rtizzle 0
wtf kind of parking garage charges $13 for every 10 minutes? thats ******* ridiculous
CryingHowls 0
what kind of parking lot is that?! so expensive! parking is free in philippines and rates are charged hourly or every 30 minutes in hong kong (random fact: an hour's parking is 12 pennies) 13 bucks for 10 minutes is pretty intense. It's over a dollar for every minute wtf!
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BaldOuting 0
I have lived in new york city, los angeles and san francisco and I've never heard of a parking rate as ridiculous as that. Or maybe I was just smart enough not to park in one of those...
spillproof 0
An hour?! How big is this garage? YDI for not remembering where you park, I guess you'll learn to remember now.
boatiebanter 0
YDI for not remembering where you parked, by noting it down or something, especially in a place that charges such exorbitant fees. And, surely if you were going to get charged an extra $13 if you left even a minute after 10 you should have come back earlier?
asttro_boy 0
YDI! Deserved!
1OBSESSION 0
In Toronto, after 6pm most parking garage fee is $6 flat rate.
BaldOuting 0
#16 a flat rate I understand but 13 dollars every 10 minutes that seems over the top.
Some___Guy 0
At least you wrote it right. Posts like these usually this end with "I paid $78 to go to the store for a $1.53 thing."
coffeennicotine 0
#7, I've lived and parked in Chicago for years and never experienced that. So it's not Chicago parking. And OP, I forget where I park sometimes, but you really should write it down. And I can't imagine anyone taking an hour to find their car still, that's just ridiculous.
TrinityNevada 11
Could OP have told the garage people that they didn't remember where they parked to avoid fees? Yeah, I think even if OP didn't have paper/writing device, they could have texted themselves something like "Level 3, to the right of the elevator, seven spots down from first concrete post". I text myself reminders all the time. But I have a cheap phone so it's about my only choice. *wanders away*
Morganxbabyyy 0
fail on your part.
microtrash 0
NYC has incredible parking costs, but i've never seen anything that high.... I've paid as much as 60something for a night out, but never seen anything charged like that. What would it have been overnight?