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An Excellent Outcome

January 14, 2008 By pgarry

Grandsons Patrick and Kyle are both in theater tech at the School for Creative and Performing Arts, so attendance at the Aronoff performance of The Musical: Miracle on 34th St was mandatory – to hear about what parts of the set they had helped to build.

We pulled into the parking lot that runs along 7th from Main to Sycamore. Where normally $5 goes into the machine which spits out a ticket, there was a man collecting the $5 (as had always been the custom until very recently), and giving a printed bit of cardboard to place on the dash.

All seemed ordinary, until we came back to the car to find a ‘ticket’ from the parking lot, that we had not paid. Whereupon another man came up, took the ticket, said he’d deal with it, and I gave him another $5. Didn’t seem quite right, but what the heck.

I kept meaning to call the parking lot company – which meant stopping and looking at the ticket machine for a phone number.

Didn’t get that done, and on Saturday, a letter from a collection agency arrived in the mail, asking for the $60 I owed them for non-payment. I managed to call their Seattle number when they were open today, and given the options, chose to punch 2 to dispute the debt.

I told the woman who answered that I really wasn’t disputing it, but just wanted to tell my sad little story. Lo and Behold, when I finished – she voided the letter, and will send me another letter confirming that! An unexpected and terrific outcome.

Filed Under: Cultural Commentary

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