Phones and Parking - urgh

I finally changed my phone plan. I've had my cell phone since '99 and just got a new one last month. So today, I FINALLY changed my ancient calling plan...after about 5 months of outrageous phone bills. Yup, I shoulda just changed it after the first one. It's that "I'll do it later syndrome". A large phone bill ranked low on my priority list in comparison to everything else...but it only took my a 5 minute phone call to change it. Unbelieveable. I coulda saved myself a couple hundred bucks. oh well. It's done now, and I'll try not to procrastinate on my daily domestic responsibilities anymore. hrm. Atleast I do my laundry regularly. heh.

So my pet peeve right now is the Pittsburgh Parking Authority. I believe there is an evil heathen living under the city that runs the PPA. It's like a mafia with parking ticket devices. I've gotten probably about 20 or so tickets in the past 2 years (less than one a month). On Friday, I was a good little citizen...i parked at a meter and faithfully kept that sucker filled all day. BUT I STILL GOT A TICKET. Unbelievable. I know legions of people that do this. It's a good way to save a dime here and there if you park regularly in overpriced garages. Apparently they're trying to say I "overparked" because it's a 2 hour parking area. Yeah Right. That crap holds up for off street parking, but as far as I'm concerned there is nothing written on or around the meters saying you must move once 2 hours expires. THIS IS THE WHOLE POINT OF A METER. If you need to stay longer than two hours...you have the joy and priveledge of paying the city more money for that particular space...if you would have needed a space for less than the allotted meter time, then you'd just park in a 2-hour non-metered space. I despise the parking authority. I wish our city would go suck money from somewhere else. I'm already bitter about having to pay a huge amount of money to park down here...and now this. grrr. I don't even care if it really is a rule you can only park for 2 hours...CAUSE THAT WOULD BE A STUPID RULE! OOOhhh, PPA, you're not gettin my money this time!!!