🚀 go-pugleaf

You may recall I posted a few weeks ago about how the friendly NYC parking 
enforcement folks left me a gift of 2 parking tickets in thanks for my 
spending a Sunday morning shopping on the Lower East Side.  I thought you 
might like to hear the latest.  

When I last wrote, I had gotten one ticket (the duplicate registration) 
dropped from $55 to $25 by a hearing-by-mail.  The 2nd one, for the expired 
meter, had my "broken meter" claim refused, claiming the meter was not 
broken per their records.  So, I paid the $25 (no choice at that point, you 
have to pay before you can appeal) for the first ticket and sent in a letter 
to the "hearing-by-mail" people for the 2nd one.  They cashed my check, and 
last week I got a notice in the mail for the reduced ticket telling me to
pay up or else!  They showed the ticket being for $55 and the balance being
$30!  Nowhere did it show that the ticket had been reduced.  So, I called, 
and after sitting on hold for 15 minutes (I was actually surprised, I 
expected the number to be busy when I called) I gave the operator my summons 
number.  She took it, and there's silence on the line (she may have been 
speaking to someone in the background, I heard some noise but it might have 
been another operator on another call).  Finally, I said "hello?".  She said 
"yes, I see that it was reduced, and that you paid, and you should not have 
received the notice".  She claims she is sending me a letter saying that I 
am all paid up.  Why do I have this feeling that I will need to hold on to 
that letter when the DMV starts telling me that they will not renew my 
registration due to outstanding tickets?  

Oh yes, no word on the other ticket yet.  I sent it return receipt 
requested, took almost 2 weeks for the receipt to arrive!  

-- Bill rubin@watson.ibm.com