Parking Lot ROBBERY!

I was lucky enough to get a ride into work today by my wife so I escaped the robbery or I like to call it raping of parking in downtown Hartford.  I know that may be a bit harsh to describe the price to park downtown of a major city but that’s what I feel like happens to me every time I hand over my five dollars.  Now I know what you’re saying, “why is he complaining about five dollars a day?  That doesn’t sound so bad?”  Well, I park a half mile away in an open lot with no cover from the elements in a parking lot with broken concrete and pretty much gravel flooring.  Not only that, but the “lot attendant”  who is supposed to be supervising the entire lot looks like a pot head who I know goes around and tries the handles on all the cars to see if he gets lucky and someone leaves them unlocked.  I caught this guy doing this one morning when I forgot something in my car and had to go back to retrieve it.  He was lurking around my car and I saw him try one of the back doors.  I asked him what he was doing and he acted like he wasn’t doing anything.  I tried to find a different lot but unless I want to pay anywhere from 8-25 dollars a day, this shady ass lot will have to do.  Maybe it’s me, but it’s too god damn expensive to park downtown in major cities.

By the way, I work in Hartford, CT and the parking lot in question is located at corner of

Morgan St.

and

Main St

.

(also an entrance at

Chapel St

.

), stay AWAY!  The problem with this scenario is that I know it’s not exclusive to the city I work in.  I recently visited both Baltimore, MD and our nation’s capital Washington D.C.  Not only was it almost impossible to find parking but when I did find parking it was ridiculous.  We ended up paying $25 for the day in both cities because we parked for longer than 5 hours and you automatically pay the maximum price after five hours.  At least in those cities my car was in a covered garage and it felt a lot safer than where my car is usually.

Is there a solution?  I don’t think there is.  You have to come to the city and most of the time you have to park, unless you want to use public transportation, which come on, does anyone really want to ride the bus or train with the crazies?  So basically they got you.  They can charge whatever the heck they want and guess what, we’re going to pay it.  We have to, there’s no way around it.  They got us by the balls so to speak.  So, I’ll continue getting rides from my wife whenever I can and on the days I can’t, I’ll suck it up, bend over and take it like a man.