A DPT Christmas Story

Let's say you were parked on an unmetered block with a 3-hour limit.

Let's say you got back into your car after 2 hours.

Let's say you drove around the city making multiple stops.

Let's say you returned to that same block several hours later and coincidentally parked in approximately the same spot again.

Let's say you returned to your car after another couple of hours to find a parking ticket, charging that you had been parked for longer than the time limit.

Let's say that the citation was issued by a Parking Control Officer who first checked the car 15 minutes before you left the area, and then checked it again 15 minutes after you returned.

Let's say that for almost the entire time that this ticket warrants you were parked, you were actually driving around the city making the aforementioned multiple stops.

Let's say you then collect four affidavits verifying your departure time, your appointments around the city, and your return.

Let's say you send the affidavits with a protest letter to the DPT.

Let's say two months later you get a letter back claiming that you have not responded to the citation and that the penalty will be doubled.

Let's say that the same day you receive that letter, you send in all of the materials again, paying for registered mail.

Let's say four months later you get a letter saying, "The circumstances you presented in your protest were insufficient to overcome the validity of the citation. The review has confirmed that the citation was properly issued and is valid."

Let's say that the letter also instructs you that for an administrative hearing you have to show up at the DPT office within 21 calendar days of the date of the letter, or else you forfeit the right to protest further.

Let's say the letter arrived a week after it was dated, even though intra-city mail normally arrives the next day.

Let's say the calendar days remaining include Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day.

Let's say you were planning on enjoying your hard-won and scarce vacation days at the end of the year.

Let's say you now have to waste half of one of those hard-won and scarce vacation days arguing with the cretins at the DPT office.

Wouldn't that be enough for you to cry out, "Ah! la maledizione!"????

Here ends the lesson.

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Happy goddamned holidays, you goddamned DPT bastards. I curse you all.

Comments

[Lisa Hirsch]

Aaaaaaiiiiii.

[sfmike]

You be careful with those curses, stregha! They tend to boomerang back with three times the strength!

Happy Holy Vacation Days.