Quote from my horoscope today "Stop fighting against things you can't fix. Accept things as they are and smile."
Crikey.. horoscope sometimes gives me the creeps!
I was driving to work this afternoon and 100 meters from my office carpark entrance, the hotel's wedding planner called me up to ask me if I'm OK with their letter of offer. Thus I was chatting with her and unknowingly pressed for a parking ticket instead of slotting my seasonal pass into the parking machine... I realised that I took a parking ticket 5 seconds later and decided to make a turn to the exit to avoid paying RM1 (charges for the 1st 2 hrs) and then re-enter with my seasonal pass. And yes, bingo, barrier wouldn't go up and the machine stated "Unpaid ticket - pls proceed to Autopay machine", even within 2 mins!
I was in a 'blur' mode, so I informed the security guard that I accidently took a parking ticket instead of slotting my seasonal pass and :
Guard: You need to pay the RM1 to exit, and then re-enter with your seasonal pass
Me: But I do have my seasonal pass, so can't you guys just void this and let me out?
Guard: Cannot...
Me: Why not?
Guard: You need to pay at the autopay machine to go out with the ticket
Me: *Getting darn frustrated as he did not quite answer my question* What?? Where's your boss? I want to speak to your boss!
So I got out of my car, walked to the office, and 1 pathetic guard was sitting in the booth and gave a "I-can't-make-any-decision-look". So I was explaining to him for 2 mins and all he said was "The person in charge is out for lunch at CenterPoint. If you want, please come back later".
I was kinda pissed, so decided to come back later to talk to the boss. Came up to my workstation, talked to my colleagues and they all looked at me and said "all this just for RM1?!"
And I explained that it's not the value, but more on the basis that I think it's ridiculous that they insist for me to pay whereas I made a mistake and that I DO have a valid seasonal pass.. And plus it was less than 2 mins! Don't they freaking let ppl out within like 5 mins or so from a parking area FOC?
So I spoke to a Real Estate personnel and she said the probability of me having to pay at the end of all the fuss is high... so I gave a long thought about it and at the end, gave up.
Went down, paid RM1, drove out and drove in again. This time WITH my seasonal pass.
I guess I've accepted it and am smiling about it now . . . *bloody horoscope* hehe!
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
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3 comments:
"I was driving to work this afternoon..."
*LOL*
erm.. yeah.. luxurious life of 'working from home' in the morning! :P
This is Malaysia lah babe!
Not Sydney! Sometimes, its just easier to adhere to the "unwritten rules"!
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