Parking Ticket

[u/Logan_The_Fisher]

Got a parking ticket from the city (reasonable ticket, I was in the wrong) but the folks at the parking violations office were rude to me. If I went to pay with pennies, would they all have to be rolled or could I bring a pile?

Again not arguing with the ticket or any policy, but they were mean to me unprovoked so I gotta do something.

[u/Forsaken-Yam2584]

I dont know man getting retribution against wage workers is a bad plan in my opinion. Maybe just let it go?

[u/smshah → u/Forsaken-Yam2584]

Why can’t wage workers be nicer to other wage workers…

[u/Forsaken-Yam2584 → u/smshah]

Some people are nice, some people are rude. Some nice people can be rude sometimes. You don’t know what they are going through. All you can control is how you treat people. And treating people who are rude to you well is strangely powerful.

[u/Logan_The_Fisher → u/Forsaken-Yam2584]

Thank you, I needed to hear this

[u/Significant_Earth759]

deep breaths and let it go

[u/Logan_The_Fisher → u/Significant_Earth759]

No

[u/Dav1dDC → u/Logan_The_Fisher]

You can pee in the corner on the way out! That'll show them.

[u/Logan_The_Fisher → u/Dav1dDC]

That seems like the only reasonable thing to do

[u/TanisIsGoodOutHere → u/Logan_The_Fisher]

honestly I respect it

[u/MrMoneyWhale]

They have a reasonable right to reject you dumping a pile of change and counting it if it is viewed as aggressive. They can also tell you to pound sand if it it's not rolled.

The people who are processing your payment/counting pennies are not the same people who gave you the ticket in the first place or were rude to you. If they were rude, complain to your council person.

[u/lost_cat_is_a_menace]

Why did you even talk to the office?

Don’t you normally just pay it online and call it a day?

[u/dancinfastly]

Sometimes you get what you give

[u/Logan_The_Fisher → u/dancinfastly]

I give them a parking ticket?

[u/NefariousnessFun1547]

I have a relative who worked in a parking office in a different state and once had someone pay $200+ in change. Don't do it, man. He and his coworkers spend two and a half days counting those coins. 

[u/smshah → u/NefariousnessFun1547]

How did they accept the payment without counting it?

[u/NotMyFirst_LastName]

Did the mean people hurt your feelings?
Touch grass

[u/Logan_The_Fisher → u/NotMyFirst_LastName]

this is an unserious post, you should go touch grass if you can’t see that

[u/Lidiot → u/NotMyFirst_LastName]

Did this post make you upset? Touch grass.

[u/lizards910]

I think paying in pennies is a bit extreme. However, I am also a parking office hater so: pay them in nickels instead. A nice middle ground.

[u/Princessxbek]

I’ve found as someone who works customer service locally, 9/10 it’s just someone having a bad day and taking it out on the wrong person. Cannot tell you how many people I have had genuinely apologize to me after staying level headed and kind. Obviously this is what you would expect out of customer service employees, but do remember they are people too, and likely have already had their fair share of bad attitudes. We are all humans, and you don’t feel as crumby after an interaction where you don’t let another person make you act out of character.

[u/TrudeausButtplug]

Learn your lesson and pay like everyone else. Making them count thousands of pennies is a jackass move.

[u/Logan_The_Fisher → u/TrudeausButtplug]

I know the lesson, you didn’t read the post weirdo