Parking Question

[JaroFan]

I made a huge mistake! When I was flipping through our remaining parking passes I found one for 1/13 vs. Atlanta. Uh oh! I then realized that I had taken the April Atlanta game by accident and somehow they let us in. Is that parking pass red? I guess I should try and pass my January one off since they didn't catch my mistake on 1/13. Do you think it's worth even emailing the parking people about? My husband is pissed about possibly having to pay again.

[JaroFan]

Bump - to see if anyone can answer what color that pass is, LOL!

[SouthernHockeyChick]

It's blue. :(

Wait....that's Feb.

April 6? It is Orange.

[JaroFan]

Crap! Well then, they apparently didn't catch that I had the wrong color up on 1/13. I guess i'll have to email the parking people, although i'm sure they won't be sympathetic.

Thanks, Angi!

[Canesluver]

It's orange, for sure? (I'm not at home to check) We've got most of ours from old games-- I just pull 'em down and stick 'em in the door pockets. I could probably find an orange one and give it to you.

And then.... this is what you do.... just sit back and learn from the master scammer:

Have it in your hand, so that your fingers block the date. And then you make eye contact with the parking dude-- kind of shake it a little, like, "See? Got my parking pass" and be in the process of hanging it up. And don't take your hand off it, until you've turned the car away from him-- like, "Ohhh, now, where's the hole? How do I hook this thing up here?"

As long as it's the right color, they won't even notice. :beatup:

Well... at least that's how I'd do it..... not like I HAVE or anything..... I'm just supposing that's how you'd do it...... :angel:

And here's another good tip:
Grocery store coupons. Don't worry if the date's expired. Just cut it off, if it is. Like, "Ooops! These crazy scissors!" I've never once had someone not take a coupon 'cause it didn't have an expiration date. :p

[JaroFan]

Okay, it's the April 6th game, is that one orange?

CL, I may take you up on that!

[kermelbar]

Grocery store coupons. Don't worry if the date's expired. Just cut it off, if it is. Like, "Ooops! These crazy scissors!" I've never once had someone not take a coupon 'cause it didn't have an expiration date. :p

And Linens 'N' Things will take theirs, even if the date has expired. I've been known to make two or three trips to the car to drop off a purchase and pick up a coupon. =.)

Which has nothing to do with this topic, but may be useful nonetheless. =.)

[StormWarning]

Speaking of parking... how in the heck are they gonna clear out the parking lot after such a huge NCSU win over UNC?

You know the lots is still full of drinking and celebrating fans that can't be forced to drive (after drinking).

PS GO PACK!!!!!

[JaroFan]

The parking manager (Mike something) was so helpful. Since the passes are different colors he said I shouldn't try to pass it off. He's making a note to all his crew to let me in that night. I'm going to call that week to remind him though, since it's so far away.

[CC]

I like your approach much better. No more cutting off expiration dates!

Honesty does work.

[G105]

From past experiences, I think you could hang a correctly shaped piece of paper of the appropriate color on the mirror and get in with it. At least in the winter when it's dark. Most of the attendants I've been by seem to be busy counting and arranging bills from the previous cars and I have to point energetically to my hang tag. Come April, it'll be lighter and probably harder to slip a fake by them. But so far, I think almost any hang tag would work.

[puck_it]

in highschool, a buddy of mine lost his parking tag... so instead of paying for a new one, fashioned one out of cardboard spraypainted it gold, used whiteout on the outline, and drew a demon on it in sharpie. they never knew... he had it there for months.

[goalie33]

At my school you had to have this yellow/blue gradient under the name on your ID card to be allowed off-campus for lunch, but it was just a tiny strip, so I photoshopped it and glued it on the IDs of my friends. It looked perfect from anywhere farther than an inch away. I say just wing it.

[CaniacKak]

Good grief. Have any of you ever heard the saying, "Honesty is the best policy"? Contacting the parking people certainly turned out to be the right thing to do, didn't it?

Here's a thought....If you make a mistake, own up to it and you don't have to worry about being "caught"!

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Thank you for the morality lecture. BTW, you look fat in those pants. ;)


Now, we'll see if honesty really gets her in the door come game night. I barely trust the parking people to let me in on my legit passes, lol.

[CaniacKak]

But I just lost 29 lbs! (Those darn pants!) :lol:

[SoCalcaniac]

^^ Wow. It's resolved, chill out. Jarofan has resolved her situation, people were talking about other situations they were in unrelated to the arena. Quite a reaction over 'parking'. :huh: I hate to be a wet blanket Jaro, but the parking people are horrible, I don't know that they'll have their act together on the night in question. They'll probably hassle you to no end. I'm hoping not but usually the stink to high heaven.

On the parking front; when was the last time any lot attendant paid attention to your pass when you drove in? G105 described every experience we've had going into the East lot - they can't be bothered to look up to see that you may have a tag hanging. The parking 'thing' ranks right up there with our "announcer" and all his bumbling, and the past dated commercials on the jumbotron.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

But I just lost 29 lbs! (Those darn pants!) :lol:

:laugh: Thank you for reacting to that comment in the spirit in which it was intended! :beer:

[Canesluver]

The parking manager (Mike something) was so helpful. Since the passes are different colors he said I shouldn't try to pass it off. He's making a note to all his crew to let me in that night. I'm going to call that week to remind him though, since it's so far away.


Get him to send you something in an Email, so that you can print it and take it with you. Seriously. $10 says the people in the lots won't have a clue.

I'll still give one of my old ones, though. ;)

[CaniacKak]

:laugh: Thank you for reacting to that comment in the spirit in which it was intended! :beer:

I love your spirit. And I thank you for the opportunity to say something from my heart without you totally trashing me!

[Shell]

I agree to try and get it in an email to bring, my experieces with Mike Alexander have not been positive and the parking crew is inept for the most part.

[StormChaserBH]

I would also bring one of the other parking passes along to that game anyway as a backup plan, and if you get "Clueless Parking Dude" who doesn't buy your legit story, then you know Mike didn't follow through on his end of the deal to tell everyone, so then come in another entrance with the other pass and play the "O Darn, I brought the wrong pass tonight but please let me in" card. Good luck.

[JaroFan]

Thanks everyone! Yeah, i'm not too 100% about if it will work. But he said right then he was writing it in his calendar. I'm still going to get someone's orange pass and try that way but if they stop me, i'll say my name is on the list.

Thanks!

[G105]

JaroFan, I know your issue is resolved, bit I have to ask how it happened. How did you manage (in January) to reach down into the tablet of parking passes and grab one for an April game? My season pass book is half an inch thick and I just tear off the top one; they're in order. Or do you have some type of a miniplan where the parking passes are loose or separate? Just wondering.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

I've actually been wondering about that too, lol.

[JaroFan]

LOL, I should have explained it. We split tickets so at the beginning of the season I took all of our games out of the booklet and gave the actual attached ones to our seatmate. So I have a stack of loose ones and I must have grabbed the Atlanta game from the wrong end.

[JaroFan]

Update -

If you ever want to be treated like a VIP, lose your parking pass, LOL. I had an email from Mike telling me he'd given my name to his attendants, and to enter at Gate D to park with the expired pass. Once I got past the nasty cop who wouldn't let me in until I showed him the email, everyone was so helpful. They just kept waving me through - to VIP! Finally I got to the last attendant at the Box Office and told him that I really wasn't a VIP parker, but he said "Oh well, you've made it this far. I've got a spot in the front row open". LOL, I was out of the game in under a minute!