FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 2022
ON BORROWED TIME1
I suppose to be totally accurate I
really should have entitles this Blog
"On Rented Time." You see I've finally
figured out how to use the new parking
meter system the city of Pittston, and others
I'm sure, now have in place. It's not like the
old days when I started driving. Back then
you could pull up at a parking meter, put a
few pennies in and shop for a half hour or
so. These days the meters don't take pennies.
The ones I use do take nickles, dimes, quarters,
and credit cards! If you want enough time to
shop you'll probably need the card, Nobody
carries that many coins! You can call in your
license number to buy some time but you'll
need your license number and I never remember
any of my license numbers. In the municipal lot
I use there are no separate meters. Just the machine
which collects your money and issues a piece of
paper with the time marked when your time
expires. You put it in your windshield and hope
the meter reader can read it when he or she shows
up. Stay too long and, just like in the old days,
you get a ticket! Ironically downtown parking
meters were one of the main reasons people
started going to malls to shop. There they could
park for free. Now, the malls are dying and the
meters, although in a new technical form, seem
to have survived! Hope your meter is filled and
that all yoru NEWS is good1
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