{"id":1412,"date":"2007-05-22T05:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2007-05-22T05:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T05:46:00","slug":"day-141-%e2%80%94-me-vs-the-parking-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/project-365\/day-141-%e2%80%94-me-vs-the-parking-garage\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 141 \u2014 Me Vs. The Parking Garage"},"content":{"rendered":"

[for May 21]<\/p>\n

It’s funny that FearlessVK has a post up<\/a> about parking garages and car-related woes today, because I had my own parking garage-related hijinks after I left, of all places, her downtown apartment tonight. <\/p>\n

This is what greeted me upon trying to exit the parking garage a couple of blocks from her place:<\/p>\n

\"me<\/a><\/p>\n

An unmovable wall of metal, locked in place by unseen forces. (Is this normal? It seems kind of weird that you’d be unable to get out of a public parking garage after a certain time. What about if you had an emergency? Was something just not working right? Why wouldn’t the damn gate open?!?<\/i>)<\/p>\n

There is nothing quite like realizing that your ass is about to be trapped inside a parking garage all night as the sun sinks below the horizon. Suddenly I had to think of ways to get home, ways to come back and get my car, the money that would require, etc. So, resourceful as ever, I called every posted phone number on the damn walls. I talked to some random guard shack attendant at the Peabody Place, who was understandably confused about my ordeal. <\/p>\n

“I am inside a garage \u2014 I don’t know the name and I can’t see the sign \u2014 but the gate is down and locked and I can’t get out and no one’s at the guard shack and I’d really like to leave.” \"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067263764283722418\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067264069226400450\"<\/a>According to the posted hours (see Fig. 2), I was within the time of uninhibited entry and exit (see Fig. 3). But no matter; whoever lowered the gates gave not a fuck as to the poor douchebags paked inside who might need to, you know, leave<\/i>. So I sat and waited for surprised guard shack guy to contact someone who could help me out. And then I saw the number for the company that operates the door gates. Thank Zeus and his ungrateful children that someone was actually manning the switchboard. The helpful woman whose name I did not catch alerted a technician and sent him my way. <\/p>\n

But the story has an even happier ending: Someone came gliding in through the entrance, leaving enough of a window of time for me to speed out of. The taste of relief was palpable. I called the helpful lady back and had her cancel my rescue request. She seemed as relieved as I was. <\/p>\n

If only I had parked at Parking Can Be Fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[for May 21] It’s funny that FearlessVK has a post up about parking garages and car-related woes today, because I had my own parking garage-related hijinks after I left, of all places, her downtown apartment tonight. This is what greeted me upon trying to exit the parking garage a couple of blocks from her place: An unmovable wall of metal, locked in place by unseen forces. (Is this normal? It seems kind of weird that… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[26,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-special-stupidity","category-project-365"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-mM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}