Transportation: Today, I searched for free parking near my work for 30 minutes,...

By Anonymous - 30/09/2009 05:34 - Canada

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

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By lostcar - 26/05/2009 05:39 - United States

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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By Anonymous - 24/02/2011 09:44 - New Zealand

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

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By journeytotheend - 14/07/2012 06:55 - Canada - Surrey

Today, I went to city hall to pay for a parking ticket. After returning to my truck, I found a parking ticket on my window. FML

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By Username - 04/12/2010 21:04 - United States

Today, I gave my friend a ride to town so she wouldn't have to pay the $10 to park. While waiting to pick her up, I grabbed a bite to eat. Upon returning to my car, I found a $55 parking ticket on my windshield. FML

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By Anonymous - 17/07/2010 20:31 - United States

Today, I was looking for a parking spot and finally found one. Trying to figure out if the spot was legal, I asked a cop that had pulled up. He said it was fine. I came back 3 hours later to a parking ticket. FML

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Parked out

By penne_pasta580802 - 23/01/2020 14:00

Today, I drove my car to work as I had some errands to do after, even though I only live a few blocks away. After driving round to find a car park for ages, the closest car park available was outside my house. I ended up walking to work instead. FML

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By avalanche719 - 26/08/2010 15:09 - United States

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

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By ScorpioQueen - 21/09/2009 23:34 - United States

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

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This is fine

By Anonymous - 23/03/2023 00:00

Today, I hopped on a tram without a ticket to travel one stop in order to save 5 minutes off my walk. Instead, I got a $230 fine and ended up 15 minutes further away from my destination. FML

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By occam's pube-razor - 05/09/2015 04:26 - United States - Buena Vista

Today, I parked my car, went to pay for my spot, and returned to my car only to find a parking violation ticket tucked under the windshield wipers. This all happened in less than a minute. FML

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firebird94 0

Wednesday 30 September 2009 12:26

that's literally the dumbest thing ever....if you have to walk a mile to get to work then you might as well pay the damned $12

birds_fml 7

Wednesday 30 September 2009 12:29

You don't get a parking ticket for no reason. You get a parking ticket if you parked wrong, or you parked in a no parking zone, or if you park in a spot that there's no parking during a certain time of the day. If you can't be bothered to read the damn signs, then YDI. You know what I did, when I realized it would be impossible for me to find on campus parking at my school at 10am? I paid for parking the first day, and then I went driving around to find the closest FREE legal street parking. Yeah, it's a mile away. And no, I won't get a ticket, because I READ THE PARKING SIGNS and know when it's illegal to park, and when it's not. So I don't get tickets.

Comments

john_bell 0

Wednesday 30 September 2009 16:57

I have learned now from several FMLs that I should not try and avoid paying for parking.

LadyMedic 0

Wednesday 30 September 2009 17:09

Stop copying FMLs!! This is just getting obnoxious.

Matcayn 0

Wednesday 30 September 2009 17:18

I've got enough of these "I don't wanna pay 12$ for parking lot so I'll pay 30$ for a ticket"

JordoK 0

Wednesday 30 September 2009 18:51

Did you not see my post from earlier? If anyone is a ******* moron, its you. And as for everyone saying this is a rip off, the world is a very big place, and its possible for this very, very common scenario to happen to more than one person.

crystalelizabeth 0

Wednesday 30 September 2009 19:26

FAKE

Witchcraft_fml 4

Wednesday 30 September 2009 20:55

Erm... You obviously knew it was raining when you parked unless it was a sudden freak torrential downpour. I...have nothing to say.

prettystoopid 0

Wednesday 30 September 2009 21:04

is everyone else as sick as I am about reading about these cheap people that end up with tickets? its like there is one every other day, I think they are all FAKE. And if not, morons.