More Philly Parking Drama
So, at 8:15pm last night, we get a phone call from the front desk last night telling us that there is a policeman waiting for us downstairs to talk to us about our car parked by Kelly Drive. Kelly Drive is by boat house row and the art museum, at least a mile from where we live, work, and PARK. Naturally, we were both puzzled.
Turns out our car got towed there because of Wednesday's funeral procession for that cop that got shot going in to the Dunkin Donuts. I don't understand why they needed to tow cars because of the funeral procession DRIVING PAST.... extremely frustrating. The traffic cop was nice enough to drive me to my car to go pick it up. Apparently, we were one of the lucky cars that didn't get broken in to.
She wasn't able to get a hold of another woman in our building who also had her car towed to the same location, and asked that I try to contact her when I get back to the building. I went to the front desk and tried to call her, but she wasn't there. I figured I would try again myself instead of having the front desk people handle it -- I know if I were on the other end, I would rather here what was going on from another resident that had something similar happen, and not the clueless security workers.
As dumb luck would have it - this woman got in the elevator with me! A few elevators were shut down last night, so there was a big group of us in my elevator. I mentioned to everyone that if they park in zone 6 and haven't checked on their car in awhile they should, because mine had been towed. This woman mentions, "I'm parked on 20th Street", where I had been parked. Just then, the elevator stops at the 12th floor and she proceeds to get out. I holler, "Wait, are you in apartment 1208?" She was. I get out of the elevator with her, hand her the paperwork, and bring her up to speed....
This traffic cop was very nice to go searching us out. A few cars had been reported and were turning up there, so she realized the rest of us must not know yet what had happened. Quite a few cars had been broken in to, but not Molly... I had asked Adam to check on my car on Saturday when he was driving to my mom's but he forgot to do it - I guess that turned out for the best, since he would have had me freaked that the car was missing and I would have been one of those people stressed out and reporting my car stolen......
Time to sell Molly. And no more parking on 20th street.....
