James Cochran’s Blog

To the person who wanted to park where I was parked,

I realize that you can save a few cents by using a parking meter that already has time on it.  I don’t understand why you would wait so long in the space directly behind me for me to leave.  At first I didn’t believe that is what you were actually doing and I had to eat my tasty chocolate chip cookie anyway which was going to take a few minutes.  When you sat there doing nothing I realized that perhaps you were waiting to pull up one car length closer to the City Market building.  Just to play with you I checked my email on my phone and wasted about 5 minutes until you got out of your car and walked to your meter.  That’s when I pulled away.  I noticed that you did in fact get back into your car and pull up.  I just want to apologize for being rude and not driving off right away.  I’m sort of surprised you were willing to wait 5+ minutes for my spot while not even knowing if any time was on the meter.  For the record I had 9 minutes left when I got in the car.  So I hope you at least enjoyed the free 4 minutes that I paid for.  I’m sure you needed it since you were driving a Jaguar and I’m sure the payments are outrageous.