Who does not love a great burrito?
We at The Bus Bench are avid foodies and can tell you quite a bit about great food in a number of cities and towns across the continent. However, we like to eat and not wait, yet after having finished eating, do not mind waiting. And while elsewhere, we certainly do not like returning to a rented vehicle to find a citation on the windshield. So one can imagine how we felt as we waited for the Metro W/B 76 at N. Main and Griffin, (after having ate, of course) and observing this meter maid. For someone whose so-called motto about "Keeping L.A. moving" behaving in a manner that was far from extolling the economy of motor vehicular movement, we have neither patience nor manners. This guy is an asshole. And he was an asshole for no more than a burrito.
Nice job, jerk. Give our regards to Jimmy Price.
Stay tuned for Monday morning's post, where we offer this schmuck's co-worker blatant disregard for the traffic light up the street at Main and Daley.
Wow. You guys are a bunch of crybabies. Do you hold LADOT employees to a higher standard than non-LADOT employees? If so, why? They wear the uniform because they get paid and are wage slaves like the rest of us. How many times have you witnessed a regular civilian hold up traffic for seemingly selfish reason? How many times have you held up traffic for seemingly selfish reasons?
If that guy is an asshole, then we're all assholes and you aren't pointing anything out other than he is just like you and me.
Posted by: Chris | 07/12/2009 at 02:21 PM
The crybaby statement I don't agree with the rest of it I do somewhat. These series of post will have a point and it won't be that people with uniforms are assholes. Thanks for sharing. I do understand your point and empathize with your concerns.
And me personally I have never held up traffic. I try to be very mindful when I'm walking around the city that it's more than just me out there.
Browne
Posted by: browne | 07/12/2009 at 06:05 PM
Chris,
I can only imagine you are a meter maid. But I know you are a crybaby yerself. Last I looked, my post is hardly commensurate with citing people, issuing warrants and towing away cars. Jimmy Price has made it clear that that is what his meter maids are on hand to do, and I have witnessed how that is the MO carried out by his minions.
You will pardon my indignation, but I have long since lost me patience reiterating to idiots the bleeding obvious. In this case, it is about hypocrisy. You offer the same argument that too many war criminals at The Hague have always offered: just following orders. So if I pay you more than Jimmy Price pays you, will you bring cars to my lot too?
In the future, feel free to post more anonymous posts about that which you know too little, schmuck. I will be too glad to pay back that which agencies such as yours have offered a model: with unwarranted punitive measures.
In the meantime, stay tuned for much more meant to piss off those who tell the rest of us to do even as they exhibit behaviour to the contrary.
Posted by: Randall BusTard | 07/12/2009 at 06:11 PM