Parking
Parking has become the biggest racket of the modern age. I know that's a big claim when compared to such things as the insurance, medical and food industries but hear me out.
You can't park anywhere any more without someone sticking their hand out. You have to pay to park at the HOSPITAL for God's sake. Any entertainment venue (except the movies) you go to charges $5 per car minimum to park. We'll be paying to park at the movies before long, it's just too sweet a deal. You pay some kid minimum wage to take the money and that's your overhead. The rest is pure profit. We went to Cirque De Solei a few weeks ago, they must have had 30,000 people go thru that place during it's run. At 5$ a pop, that's $150,000 JUST FOR PARKING.
On the same subject, every little business seems to have reserved spaces outside their place. I just went to the dentist which is in one of those little office parks with the cirly queue parking lots that are mostly trees and no spaces. Every little office had their reserved parking areas and parking in any of the other spaces got you towed. Now, I understand towing off the people parking in the Whataburger parking lot so they can skip paying the 5$ for the event parking but isn't that just a symptom of the whole pay to park bullshit.
I guess that's one of the problems with getting old, you remember all the stuff that used to be free that they now suck money out of you for. Did you know there is now a service charge for a fucking savings account at the bank?
Ah well, what you gonna do...
You can't park anywhere any more without someone sticking their hand out. You have to pay to park at the HOSPITAL for God's sake. Any entertainment venue (except the movies) you go to charges $5 per car minimum to park. We'll be paying to park at the movies before long, it's just too sweet a deal. You pay some kid minimum wage to take the money and that's your overhead. The rest is pure profit. We went to Cirque De Solei a few weeks ago, they must have had 30,000 people go thru that place during it's run. At 5$ a pop, that's $150,000 JUST FOR PARKING.
On the same subject, every little business seems to have reserved spaces outside their place. I just went to the dentist which is in one of those little office parks with the cirly queue parking lots that are mostly trees and no spaces. Every little office had their reserved parking areas and parking in any of the other spaces got you towed. Now, I understand towing off the people parking in the Whataburger parking lot so they can skip paying the 5$ for the event parking but isn't that just a symptom of the whole pay to park bullshit.
I guess that's one of the problems with getting old, you remember all the stuff that used to be free that they now suck money out of you for. Did you know there is now a service charge for a fucking savings account at the bank?
Ah well, what you gonna do...
posted by Big Ed at 12:24 PM
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I pay 6 bucks a month for my checking account. I recently had occasion to go to my bank to discuss me opening another checking account for using only for online purchases. I explained that I didn't really want to spend another 6 bucks a month for a checking account. They told me that if I made the account electronic only (can't use the tellers in the bank for transactions) or made it a direct deposit account it would be free.
Direct deposit account? What do you mean?
If you have a paycheck or social security or something like that direct deposited then there is no charge for your account.
I've been having my paycheck direct deposited for over a year and you've been taking 6 bucks out every month...
*looks at my account info*
Oh. We'll change that then.
cocksuckers.
I hear ya brother. Wouldn't it just make sense that a "full service bank" would actually STOP ass raping you when you met the requirements.
I hope you made them give you the year's worth of service charges back.
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