Its Only 365 Days
GLASSES FULL OF REGRET
I was passing by this and I thought, if you don't take this shot, you are going to regret it later. This is the downtown parking gestapo at work. They are relentless. You park there and even think about not thinking about paying and you have a citation. I'm literally terrified of these people. They have these tiny booth offices with no lights on, and they sit in wait like hungry hyenas and the moment they see the feet walk away, they are out with their black scanners meeting quotas.
When I was in Louisiana, I was doing a photo shoot across the street from this major hotel, and I asked my client like 20 times if it was okay to park where we were parked because I could see the PEA (Parking Enforcement Agents) circling like buzzards over the nearby lot. We checked and where we were was fine, but not the case for the hotel lot. We came back from the shoot and were just sitting on a bench catching a breeze, and a fight broke out because this lady got the boot over night. Then another couple came and had like 2 citations, then 10 minutes later another guy got into a fight with the lot because he only ran in for a minute and got a 75$ ticket. I know this, because he was yelling this amongst other things at high volume. Talk about tough job. I know it is there job and they are just doing it, but literally no one likes them. No one. The one AND only ticket I have ever received in my life, in the 13 years I've been driving, was for ALLEGEDLY...UH-LED-JED-LEE...parking too close to a stop sign. The only reason I was parked there in the first place was they were doing construction at work building our new bigger two story parking lot, and we were forced to park on the street, but with 100 employees all having to suddenly park in limited street parking (and the nearby apartment residents pissed beyond believe that they too now had no parking), there was no room for blocks, and it was the only space I could find and not be late and what do I get...a $45 fine. I am stillll pissed to this day and that was like 6 years ago!!! Ruined my record..well not really as it doesn't go on your driving record...but I USED to be able to say I'd never gotten a ticket for anything...but no.
I'm sorry, what was I talking about?
Ah yes, my glasses full of regret. I found today, in a dusty box, my original aviators. The ones I loved because the tint was black. My current ones have a Sepia tint and I hate it because everything sort of looks yellowish. Anyway, the sun was on brightness level 1,029 today, but of course when you're taking pictures, you don't want to have a barrier between you and your subject, so I was constantly taking these off and putting them back on. I did drop them once midtown, but heard the clink and scurried to pick them up. So I took this shot then walked into the Earth Day Festival and I thought I heard a clink but I turned round and there was nothing I could see but I kept going. Halfway through the park I realized the Aviators...I just found...were now gone. Seriously! I was like, I'm going to now have to walk the 7 blocks back blinded by the light to get to the car as well as drive with no glasses...which I just found again today only to lose them. Thankfully it occurred to me that my replacement aviators were in the car so 7 blocks later, I was in Sepia vision.
GLASSES FULL OF REGRET
I was passing by this and I thought, if you don't take this shot, you are going to regret it later. This is the downtown parking gestapo at work. They are relentless. You park there and even think about not thinking about paying and you have a citation. I'm literally terrified of these people. They have these tiny booth offices with no lights on, and they sit in wait like hungry hyenas and the moment they see the feet walk away, they are out with their black scanners meeting quotas.
When I was in Louisiana, I was doing a photo shoot across the street from this major hotel, and I asked my client like 20 times if it was okay to park where we were parked because I could see the PEA (Parking Enforcement Agents) circling like buzzards over the nearby lot. We checked and where we were was fine, but not the case for the hotel lot. We came back from the shoot and were just sitting on a bench catching a breeze, and a fight broke out because this lady got the boot over night. Then another couple came and had like 2 citations, then 10 minutes later another guy got into a fight with the lot because he only ran in for a minute and got a 75$ ticket. I know this, because he was yelling this amongst other things at high volume. Talk about tough job. I know it is there job and they are just doing it, but literally no one likes them. No one. The one AND only ticket I have ever received in my life, in the 13 years I've been driving, was for ALLEGEDLY...UH-LED-JED-LEE...parking too close to a stop sign. The only reason I was parked there in the first place was they were doing construction at work building our new bigger two story parking lot, and we were forced to park on the street, but with 100 employees all having to suddenly park in limited street parking (and the nearby apartment residents pissed beyond believe that they too now had no parking), there was no room for blocks, and it was the only space I could find and not be late and what do I get...a $45 fine. I am stillll pissed to this day and that was like 6 years ago!!! Ruined my record..well not really as it doesn't go on your driving record...but I USED to be able to say I'd never gotten a ticket for anything...but no.
I'm sorry, what was I talking about?
Ah yes, my glasses full of regret. I found today, in a dusty box, my original aviators. The ones I loved because the tint was black. My current ones have a Sepia tint and I hate it because everything sort of looks yellowish. Anyway, the sun was on brightness level 1,029 today, but of course when you're taking pictures, you don't want to have a barrier between you and your subject, so I was constantly taking these off and putting them back on. I did drop them once midtown, but heard the clink and scurried to pick them up. So I took this shot then walked into the Earth Day Festival and I thought I heard a clink but I turned round and there was nothing I could see but I kept going. Halfway through the park I realized the Aviators...I just found...were now gone. Seriously! I was like, I'm going to now have to walk the 7 blocks back blinded by the light to get to the car as well as drive with no glasses...which I just found again today only to lose them. Thankfully it occurred to me that my replacement aviators were in the car so 7 blocks later, I was in Sepia vision.