I pity tourists coming to Toronto

On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 19:57:36 -0700 (PDT), RichA wrote:
: Holiday weekend. Normal price at this lot is $10.00.
:
: http://www.pbase.com/andersonrm/imag...84213/original

The two warning posters contradict each other. An excellent opportunity for
one of your right-wing lawyer friends, Rich. Unless, of course, (s)he wrote
the posters.

Thanks, but I'll not need your well-intentioned pity. IIRC, the one and only
time I was ever in Toronto was sometime in the mid-1970s. That was business,
not tourism, and I flew and took the subway. (Yes, the subway went only so
far, and one had to take a bus the rest of the way. It probably goes all the
way to the airport now.)

Bob

On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 23:32:58 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote:

On Monday, August 5, 2013 11:15:34 PM UTC-4, Robert Coe wrote:
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 19:57:36 -0700 (PDT), RichA wrote:

: Holiday weekend. Normal price at this lot is $10.00.

:

: http://www.pbase.com/andersonrm/imag...84213/original



The two warning posters contradict each other. An excellent opportunity for

one of your right-wing lawyer friends, Rich. Unless, of course, (s)he wrote

the posters.



Thanks, but I'll not need your well-intentioned pity. IIRC, the one and only

time I was ever in Toronto was sometime in the mid-1970s. That was business,

not tourism, and I flew and took the subway. (Yes, the subway went only so

far, and one had to take a bus the rest of the way. It probably goes all the

way to the airport now.)

Some of the most prominent Toronto lawyers are left-wing, sorry to burst your cozy liberal bubble.

Left-wing relative to you?
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 8/5/2013 10:15 PM, Robert Coe wrote:
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 19:57:36 -0700 (PDT), RichA wrote:
: Holiday weekend. Normal price at this lot is $10.00.
:
: http://www.pbase.com/andersonrm/imag...84213/original

The two warning posters contradict each other. An excellent opportunity for
one of your right-wing lawyer friends, Rich. Unless, of course, (s)he wrote
the posters.


I must be blind, but I'll be damned if I can see the contradiction in
the signage. Help an old guy out... where is the contradictory language
in those signs.

As for the price hike... Supply & Demand. Amazing how that works. Let
the team make it to the playoffs or series and watch what happens when
everybody wants to attend the game.

Hint: The parking does not become cheaper nor do the ticket.

Doubt that? Drive on over to San Diego when they have the Comic Con and
park your car.

On 8/6/13 6:51 AM, in article ,
"Unquestionably Confused" wrote:

On 8/5/2013 10:15 PM, Robert Coe wrote:
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 19:57:36 -0700 (PDT), RichA wrote:
: Holiday weekend. Normal price at this lot is $10.00.
:
: http://www.pbase.com/andersonrm/imag...84213/original

The two warning posters contradict each other. An excellent opportunity for
one of your right-wing lawyer friends, Rich. Unless, of course, (s)he wrote
the posters.


I must be blind, but I'll be damned if I can see the contradiction in
the signage. Help an old guy out... where is the contradictory language
in those signs.


I'm in the same boat as you, Confused. I fail to see anything contradictory,
but scumbag lawyers can find meat on the carcass LONG after the jackals and
buzzards have left.

As for the price hike... Supply & Demand. Amazing how that works. Let
the team make it to the playoffs or series and watch what happens when
everybody wants to attend the game.

Hint: The parking does not become cheaper nor do the ticket.


Rich A should come down to the Texas Medical Center here in Houston if he
wants to experience REAL rip-off parking prices. The sad part: If you have a
loved one in the hospitals there you are forced to pay - there really isn't
any choice.

Doubt that? Drive on over to San Diego when they have the Comic Con and
park your car.

On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 06:51:20 -0500, Unquestionably Confused
wrote:
: On 8/5/2013 10:15 PM, Robert Coe wrote:
: On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 19:57:36 -0700 (PDT), RichA wrote:
: : Holiday weekend. Normal price at this lot is $10.00.
: :
: : http://www.pbase.com/andersonrm/imag...84213/original
:
: The two warning posters contradict each other. An excellent opportunity for
: one of your right-wing lawyer friends, Rich. Unless, of course, (s)he wrote
: the posters.
:
:
: I must be blind, but I'll be damned if I can see the contradiction in
: the signage. Help an old guy out... where is the contradictory language
: in those signs.

One sign insiste that we don't have any jusisdiction over your vehicle; all we
do is rent space. Whatever happens to it is not in any way our fault or
concern.

The other asserts that if you don't pay up on time, we have the absolute right
to seize your car and transport it to parts unknown, without further
notification, at your sole expense.

Don't you think a good (intelligent, self-interested, greedy, mercenary)
lawyer could find an argument in that?

Bob

On 8/6/13 7:51 PM, in article ,
"Robert Coe" wrote:

On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 06:51:20 -0500, Unquestionably Confused
wrote:
: On 8/5/2013 10:15 PM, Robert Coe wrote:
: On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 19:57:36 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote:
: : Holiday weekend. Normal price at this lot is $10.00.
: :
: : http://www.pbase.com/andersonrm/imag...84213/original
:
: The two warning posters contradict each other. An excellent opportunity
for
: one of your right-wing lawyer friends, Rich. Unless, of course, (s)he
wrote
: the posters.
:
:
: I must be blind, but I'll be damned if I can see the contradiction in
: the signage. Help an old guy out... where is the contradictory language
: in those signs.

One sign insiste that we don't have any jusisdiction over your vehicle; all we
do is rent space. Whatever happens to it is not in any way our fault or
concern.

The other asserts that if you don't pay up on time, we have the absolute right
to seize your car and transport it to parts unknown, without further
notification, at your sole expense.

Don't you think a good (intelligent, self-interested, greedy, mercenary)
lawyer could find an argument in that?

Bob

That's pretty much the standard disclaimer at ANY parking lot anywhere, Bob.
It CAN be argued though. There is inherited liability an any rental
agreement. If someone had their auto broken in, the mangement is trying to
weasel out of liability for damages, but in actuality, there is a
responsibility, despite the boilerplate disclaimer.

On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:56:25 -0500, George Kerby
wrote:
:
:
:
: On 8/6/13 6:51 AM, in article ,
: "Unquestionably Confused" wrote:
:
: On 8/5/2013 10:15 PM, Robert Coe wrote:
: On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 19:57:36 -0700 (PDT), RichA wrote:
: : Holiday weekend. Normal price at this lot is $10.00.
: :
: : http://www.pbase.com/andersonrm/imag...84213/original
:
: The two warning posters contradict each other. An excellent opportunity for
: one of your right-wing lawyer friends, Rich. Unless, of course, (s)he wrote
: the posters.
:
:
: I must be blind, but I'll be damned if I can see the contradiction in
: the signage. Help an old guy out... where is the contradictory language
: in those signs.
:
:
: I'm in the same boat as you, Confused. I fail to see anything contradictory,
: but scumbag lawyers can find meat on the carcass LONG after the jackals and
: buzzards have left.
:
: As for the price hike... Supply & Demand. Amazing how that works. Let
: the team make it to the playoffs or series and watch what happens when
: everybody wants to attend the game.
:
: Hint: The parking does not become cheaper nor do the ticket.
:
:
: Rich A should come down to the Texas Medical Center here in Houston if he
: wants to experience REAL rip-off parking prices. The sad part: If you have a
: loved one in the hospitals there you are forced to pay - there really isn't
: any choice.

And the parking fees aren't reimbursible by your insurance plan. What the
hospitals have done is lay off some of their costs on their clients in a
manner not subject to any of the negotiated price management that insurance
companies try to promote.

It's along the same line as hospitals' unwillingness to operate any form of
24-hour clinic to triage minor afflictions, thereby allowing them to treat
every upset stomach and stubbed toe as an emergency room visit and to force
everyone (and their insurance plans) to help absorb the high cost of emergency
room equipment and staffing.

Suburban hospitals are the most effective parking ripoff artists, because
downtown hospitals are more likely to fall within the range of public
transportation. For example, when my wife spent a week in Mass General a few
years ago, it was only two subway stops from my office.

(Obligatory photographic content: None. But my stock photos of Cambridge, the
City that employs me, do include several decent shots of Mt. Auburn, the
hospital whose doctors and nurses saved my life 17 years ago.)

Bob

On 8/6/2013 9:29 PM, RichA wrote:



snip







We have socialize medicine in Toronto, but parking at a hospital averages about $27/day.


they don't wnat sick people to drive to the hospital.

--
PeterN

On 8/6/2013 11:54 PM, Tony Cooper wrote:
On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 21:22:36 -0400, Robert Coe wrote:

On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:56:25 -0500, George Kerby
wrote:
:
:
:
: On 8/6/13 6:51 AM, in article ,
: "Unquestionably Confused" wrote:
:
: On 8/5/2013 10:15 PM, Robert Coe wrote:
: On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 19:57:36 -0700 (PDT), RichA wrote:
: : Holiday weekend. Normal price at this lot is $10.00.
: :
: : http://www.pbase.com/andersonrm/imag...84213/original
:
: The two warning posters contradict each other. An excellent opportunity for
: one of your right-wing lawyer friends, Rich. Unless, of course, (s)he wrote
: the posters.
:
:
: I must be blind, but I'll be damned if I can see the contradiction in
: the signage. Help an old guy out... where is the contradictory language
: in those signs.
:
:
: I'm in the same boat as you, Confused. I fail to see anything contradictory,
: but scumbag lawyers can find meat on the carcass LONG after the jackals and
: buzzards have left.
:
: As for the price hike... Supply & Demand. Amazing how that works. Let
: the team make it to the playoffs or series and watch what happens when
: everybody wants to attend the game.
:
: Hint: The parking does not become cheaper nor do the ticket.
:
:
: Rich A should come down to the Texas Medical Center here in Houston if he
: wants to experience REAL rip-off parking prices. The sad part: If you have a
: loved one in the hospitals there you are forced to pay - there really isn't
: any choice.

And the parking fees aren't reimbursible by your insurance plan. What the
hospitals have done is lay off some of their costs on their clients in a
manner not subject to any of the negotiated price management that insurance
companies try to promote.

It's along the same line as hospitals' unwillingness to operate any form of
24-hour clinic to triage minor afflictions, thereby allowing them to treat
every upset stomach and stubbed toe as an emergency room visit and to force
everyone (and their insurance plans) to help absorb the high cost of emergency
room equipment and staffing.

Your hospitals are different from the ones here. The hospitals here
own and operate walk-in clinics.

The hospitals here have "free" valet parking. You might need ER
treatment if you don't tip for the "free" service, but theoretically
you could park free.


They treat broken kneecaps, without questioning?


--
PeterN

George Kerby wrote:

Rich A should come down to the Texas Medical Center here in Houston if he
wants to experience REAL rip-off parking prices. The sad part: If you have a
loved one in the hospitals there you are forced to pay - there really isn't
any choice.

The last time I parked in one of the Medical Center garages, the credit
card payment system was down, effectively trapping me and a few other
vehicles on the ground floor of the garage until it started working
again fifteen minutes later.