If Dante had lived in Atlanta...

[kellinator]

Love me and despair, for I have just descended into the seventh circle of hell and, however improbably, returned to tell the tale.

In other words, I just went to the university parking office.

It's easy to tell that something is not quite right when you go in. The rest of Atlanta is balmy and beautiful, but the parking office is 90 degrees and humid. Time outside passes normally, but within the parking office it slows to a crawl. Simple tasks such as printing out a receipt take ten minutes at least. And the whole time you're sweating.

It wasn't total agony, though. I've actually made it far enough on the waiting list that perhaps by the end of the year I'll no longer have to park in a deck two miles from campus. But I'm sure you'll forgive me if I don't hold my breath.

Comments

[sujata.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. Emory is Dante's Inferno?

That's actually kinda cool...but in a "Dear god, sweetie, I'm so sorry" sort of way. :-D

Love you.
*hugs*,
Molly

[kobrin.livejournal.com]

*wanders in randomly*

Campus parking offices are the embodiments of pure evil throughout the world (I'm positive of this).

My wife studied at CSU Northridge and I believe they sold 50% more passes than there were actual parking spaces (and I believe that after the monster quake that hit a few years back, they turned one of the parking structures that collapsed into a dorm, thus further reducing parking and adding more students that would wish to use said parking... *sigh*). Evil.

Just out of curiosity... you wouldn't happen to study at Georgia Tech would you? I hung out there for a few weeks with some friends back in early 1995 (mainly the dramatech crowd.. hehe).

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

No, no official Georgia Tech ties myself, but I have known a few Dramatech people. Interesting...

[kobrin.livejournal.com]

They were an entertaining bunch of people to hang out with (to say the least). Also got to hang out with an improv crew that was associated with the campus that had a gig at a place called "Caffiends" *grin*.

Also visited Athens, GA. The interesting part of the trip was that the drinking age in the USA was 21 (here in Australia it's 18), so I had to sneak into pubs again for the first time in 3 years. I turned 21 a mere three days after I returned home. *sigh* C'est la vie. :)

[captain-bob.livejournal.com]

We figured out that cost of a parking ticket times probability of getting bagged at my favorite spot on campus was less than the cost of parking legally. So no need for a permit.

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

I was on the waiting list for 3 years before I got in to that parking deck (I assume I know which one you're talking about), but it's veeerrrrrry nice to park right next to the library and not have to build in another 10 - 15 mins. into my commute to get from my car to here (and let's not even start with TAS).