Another rant...

I seldom rant.  Not seriously at least.  But it seems lately that's all I'm doing.

First it was Second Cup not selling egg nogcoffee locally and expecting me to send my credit card information to an unsecured e-mail address to someone in Halifax.   Then it was an issue with a local grocery store's loyalty reward points.  Today it's something totally different.

We picked up our son (DS) at his condo this morning.  A gentleman stopped us to explain that they were removing the snow from the parking lot today and asked that we park somewhere else.  We explained that we were just making a pick up.  No problem then.  Then he went off to knock on condo doors requesting that people move their cars.

I asked DS if he had received any requests for residents to move their cars from the parking lot for today.  He replied that there had been several notices in the mail.  I wonder why there were so many cars still there if that was the case.

Two hours later DS received a call on his cell phone from the property maintenance.  They asked him to remove his car from his parking stall.  He let them know that he doesn't own a car and no one should be parked in his stall.

Turns out that someone decided it was too much trouble to park their car elsewhere in the neighbourhood.  Instead they parked their car in DS's stall.  that way if parking tickets were issued, DS would get the ticket instead of them.  The joke was on them.  No tickets were issued.  All cars were towed away.

When we dropped DS back at his condo 5 hours later, the tow truck still had two more vehicles to remove from the parking lot.  The snow removal crew had been waiting for all that time.  If anyone complains about condo fees going up I hope the condo board points to this as an example of why.

The board had sent out several notices, maintenance had knocked on doors, phone calls made and even when we dropped DS off the tow truck driver came over to let us know there was no parking.

That's it...I'm off to watch a Christmas movie.  Maybe that will help improve my mood.