[received today in the mail]

Quote :

"North Carolina Department of Administration Michael F. Easley, Governor W. Britt Cobb, Jr., Secretary Dianne S. Green, Director, State Parking Division March 21, 2007 Re: Parking Fees Dear Mr. Doucette, Your vehicle tag number XXX-XXXX was parked in a state-owned visitor parking lot after the close of business on the dates listed below. North Carolina General Statute 143-340 requires all users to pay for visitor parking. A pay envelope was left on the vehicle on this date(s) listed and your tag number was recorded by our office: 12/02/2005 As of the date of this letter, we have not received payment for parking services for the above listed tag number. Failure to pay for parking services may result in this matter being turned over to the Attorney General's office for further collection action and your vehicle being restricted from parking in state-owned lots. Effective August 1, 2006, parking fees are $1 per hour or any portion thereof; or a maximum of $8 per day. However, prior to that date, fees were $.50 per hour or any portion thereof; or a maximum of $4 per day. If you are unable to locate your ticket(s), the fee is $4 or $8 for a lost ticket, depending upon the dates of the tickets. Please submit your payment by check or money order to the address listed below. Please include the payment envelope(s) and ticket(s) with the appropriate amount. Sincerely, [hand-signed manually w/ a ball-point pen] [name] State Parking Processing Clerk 919-807-2314"

Aside from the fact they're waiting 1 year and 4 months to contact me about $4 -- the fuckers cashed my check on 12/05/05...

3/28/2007 10:12:46 AM

You'll never become a Democrat because of inefficient government bureaucracy?

One word for you, my friend: Katrina.

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3/28/2007 10:18:00 AM

and FEMA is a Republican program?

3/28/2007 10:27:25 AM

::smacks forehead::

3/28/2007 10:31:31 AM

so.........

whats the point

3/28/2007 10:34:53 AM

i'm actually not sure

3/28/2007 10:35:34 AM

I'm sure Easley and his democraticness personally oversaw this issue. I'm also sure if republican was the governor this would not of happened.

/sarcasm

3/28/2007 10:40:21 AM

I really do feel that some democrats think that Bush caused Katrina

3/28/2007 10:41:00 AM

I think TGD self owned in some sort of obtuse way.

[Edited on March 28, 2007 at 10:41 AM. Reason : ^ He didn't?]

3/28/2007 10:41:05 AM

I thought global warming caused Katrina.

3/28/2007 10:42:55 AM

AND GLOBAL WARMING IS AN INVENTION OF THE DEMOCRATS

THEREFORE THE DONKEYS CAUSED KATRINA

3/28/2007 10:44:39 AM

^ Cows man. It's the cows that are producing all that Methane.

3/28/2007 10:45:39 AM

this shit is gay, even for SB

3/28/2007 10:46:25 AM

TGD

i'm afraid sir that you just got served! ohhhh!

but i agree that parking tickets are an issue of democrat v. republican due processes...

...just like ALL the bad in the world comes down to republican v. democrat

3/28/2007 10:51:50 AM

Threads like these show just how lame TSB has become.

Every discussion degenerates into some lame gay Dem vs GOP bullshit with 50% of the participants not having a clue what they are talking about.

3/28/2007 10:53:53 AM

^you're lame

3/28/2007 10:54:51 AM

^^ Did you receive my Rain-Barrel Message?

^ This is the high-level intellectual debate I've come to expect from TSB.

3/28/2007 11:02:06 AM

i will never become anyone but my own person...i pick candidates based on issues, not political party

3/28/2007 11:02:38 AM

Quote :

"^^ Did you receive my Rain-Barrel Message?"

Oh yea, I got it. Thanks for the heads up. It will be awhile before I get around to attending to any of that. Work and non-work life is pretty hectic these days.

3/28/2007 11:07:54 AM

Understood. (hence I also have not made said jump)

3/28/2007 11:09:04 AM

yeah State409c is really busy trying to decide which users to block

3/28/2007 11:10:03 AM

Quote :

"State409c: Every discussion degenerates into some lame gay Dem vs GOP bullshit with 50% of the participants not having a clue what they are talking about."

yeah, that's pretty much why I worded the thread title the way I did -- it's the only way to get any replies in TSB. the original was along the lines of "another example of why bureaucracy pisses me off"

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but seriously -- sending me a letter 1.2 years after the fact over -$4- ? (that I already paid)

the state just spent at least 2x that in terms of labor and supply costs alone... 

3/28/2007 12:50:52 PM

FUCK THAT. SHIT LIKE THIS NEVER HAPPENED WHEN CLINTON WAS PRESIDENT.

3/28/2007 12:57:53 PM

you weren't driving when clinton was president either (maybe)

3/28/2007 1:30:48 PM

25-16=9

2007-9=?

3/28/2007 1:36:12 PM

What's more of a waste:

1) The state sending a letter requesting $4.

2) You taking the time to type up the whole letter with formating and bitch about it.


hmmmm

3/28/2007 1:46:27 PM

^ The answer to that one depends on his ability to multitask & his hourly billing rate...

TGD?

3/28/2007 1:48:31 PM

i type 110 wpm, i'm only paid ~$14/hr, and i enjoying wasting time on TWW

i'd say between the 2, i win...

3/28/2007 2:21:56 PM

nope, you lost

3/28/2007 4:53:19 PM

at the game of life, true

at the game of worthless bitching on TWW like the rest of you, false

3/28/2007 5:02:01 PM

Wachovia has been sending me monthly statements for a 4$ account for over year.

I'm not going to relent and close the account unless they buy me out. I figure saving decades worth of stamps and processing costs has to be worth an amount that will make both of us happy.

3/28/2007 6:08:57 PM

Or your $4 account will stay open for centuries and due to interest will grow and grow until a time when the majority of the world's gdp is put into your account as interest.

You could be one of the greatest villains in history.

3/28/2007 6:15:34 PM

well, you do have it in a savings account, right?

3/30/2007 7:54:29 AM