Seattle Sinister

Seattle is a truly sinister place. Sometimes it's pure evil. Please, I'm not being over dramatic, this city is in some ways, at some times @#$%ed-up!!!

Exhibit A. Parking
Have you EVER seen so many parking patrol cars? I saw a meter cop on a segway the other day! "Dear Cop, we already do not take you seriously since you are a parking enforcer, but you ride a segway and you think that it necessitates wearing a helmet?!?"
But seriously. The revenue gained by writing tickets left and right would be fine by me if I thought it was being spent to give us more buses, better sidewalks, and finish that damn monorail already!!! From the numbers I could dig up, Seattle made over $210,000 on parking fines last year and bought at least 8 Dodge Chargers with custom paint to use on their "Aggressive Driver Response Team". Ahem. WE WOULDN'T BE SO AGGRESSIVE IF YOU STOPPED TICKETING US FOR PARKING ON THE STREET WHEN WE HAVE NO OTHER MODE OF TRANSPORTATION!
Also, have you ever seen a city with more on-off parking restrictions? On many streets in Seattle you need a zone# parking sticker to park there more than 2 hours. Other streets you can park on the right side of the street, but not between the hours of 4-6pm, the other side of the street you can't park between 7-9am and there are so many bushes and signs and posters it's like decoding a Mayan tablet while drunk and blindfolded!

Exhibit B. Lincoln Towing
If you own a car and you live in the 206, I don't have to explain how @#$%ed-up this company is. I have seen them waiting on certain streets for the hour to end so they can car-nap your little VW Golf and then hold it for $200.00 in ransom. I HATE THEM.

Exhibit C. Delivery/Restaurant Hours
There is none. With the exception of a pizza, or Thai food(with a minimum or $30.00) delivered to your door in an hour-hour and 45min. it just plain does not exist. And who needs $30.00 worth of pad-thai?
Restaurants in this town are LAZY! Or is it the lazy people who eat dinner at 5pm are ruining it for the rest of us? Most restaurants in Seattle are on a cryptic time frame where they are closed Sun-Tues., open 11:30-2pm for lunch then closed until 5pm for dinner. Then they stop serving dinner at 9pm. 9:00?!?!?! I'm sorry, we are not all wanting the early bird special and then to go home and catch re-runs of that terrible Charlie Sheen show, Two and a Half Men. Was there never a time in this fair city when people left work at 5-6 and then grabbed a couple cocktails before wanting to eat? Or what about going to see a show and then getting dinner after? Guess not.

Well, no more negativity for today. I guess I'm just crabby since the car was ticketed and towed this morning and no one will bring me Indian food for lunch.