Parking ticket payment.

While I agree with the idea of berkin' with Da Man a bit, you're really just screwing with some poor clerk who didn't cause the problem. Pay the $25 in regular bills and move on to more important things. Yes, get a receipt.

mmosbey wrote: Assuming this is an issue caused by insufficient parking, or a lack of signage, then the ticket revenue represents an incentive for failure for the city. I hate that.

+1

donalson wrote:

Duke wrote: Dude. I paid a $5000+ college tuition bill in used fives and singles. In person, at 4:45 on the Friday deadline. And insisted on a receipt. Goddam pompous asses at the Bursar's office had fun with *that* .

ok I want to hear more for of this backstory... :)

Well, the college I attended (this was back in the '80s) was not a bad school but was not as good as it thought it was. They were also the type to crow about how "well endowed" they were, while simultaneously asking me for alumni donations, six months before I was even supposed to graduate . That, and the accusatory tone of the letters that accompanied each semester's invoice - they pretty much assumed from the first bill that you were a deadbeat bum, rather than a paying customer - finally pissed me off. So for my last semester, instead of getting a check from dad, I saved it up from the change machines at our self-serve carwashes. Found $5,635 of the snot-raggiest, most worn-out small bills I could find, and took them to the Bursar's office loose in a paper grocery sack.

I made a point of telling the clerk it was nothing personal against her, but that I was cheesed off by three and a half years of crappy customer relations from them, and that she should be sure to tell her boss.

It was worth it.

I see no upside for you in acting out over 25$, all you will do is end up making life harder for yourself. There is a time and place for a fight and I don't see any reason to dig in for a situation where you were at fault. Paying fines is just part of modern life, no one likes it, but punitive punishments seem to work.

We had someone come in to our towing company to get back is illegally parked car back with $162.50 in pennies. He didn't think the prank was as funny as we did once hefound out my bosses blind brother was manning the desk at the time. By the time he finished counting the money he almost owed another day of storage.

Lesley wrote: Go for it. I just paid $250 in outstanding parking tickets, thanks to a neighbour who has nothing better to do than call the parking guys (most of the 100-year old houses on the street have no driveways). Even when I think I've paid them all, there are always a few outstanding. Ridiculous cash-grab.

I gotta know about this one