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I spent today trying to write my A-to-Z piece for tomorrow, so, no word about the Christmas trees just yet. Instead here's a lower-effort thing.
I decided to write the parking authority asking for a refund for my Silver Bells parking. It's only eight bucks but still, why lose eight bucks I don't need to? They wrote back today, apologizing for the delay, which I think was just the one business day.
They said that they were sorry but because the gate was closed when I entered --- that is, that I had to take a ticket to go in --- they can't refund my parking. So I wrote back, letting them know that this explanation was gibberish. If parking after 5 pm was supposed to be free, and I parked after 5:00, as you could see on my receipt I did, then why should I have to pay?
It may be a bit harsh to call their answer ``gibberish'', but I felt it was best to focus their attention on how this answer does not make sense. The alternative was to point out how obviously they can too give me eight dollars. They've got eight dollars and they have all sorts of procedures for giving money to people who aren't them, or else they haven't paid their electric bill.
Will this work? I don't know. But I figure I can still e-mail the Lansing Center, whom the parking authority blamed for this policy. And the Silver Bells committee, if it comes to that. I can keep this up until I lose the energy to do anything about this problem too.
Here's some dogs as seen at Thanksgiving.
Dog! Peewee, former street urchin, having a rare moment of being rested.
Pookie, meanwhile, wonders when this terrible condition of me being around will finally pass.
And the table ready for dinner while Peewee wonders what's going on in the computer room.
Trivia: In 1945 Americans consumed 4.5 million pounds of garlic. In 1956, they consumed 6 million pounds. Source: Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine, Sarah Lohman.
Currently Reading: The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War, David Nasaw. Geez, but Patton was a bastard. Not an original observation but, still.
