1. I deliver UPS packages to many of the rich and
famous like Woody Allen, Michael J Fox, Paul
Newman, Katie Couric and many others, including
the Mayor himself... Mike Bloomberg..
parking games

2. I have worked for UPS for over 7 years and have been on the same route for
almost the last 5 years My route is in New York City, in Manhattan, on the
prestigious Upper East Side I deliver packages on Park Ave and beautiful 5th
Ave by Central Park (where some residents pay as much as $30,000/month to
live) I deliver packages to many of the rich and famous including Woody Allen,
Michael J Fox, Paul Newman, Katie Couric and many others, including the
Mayor himself Mike Bloomberg Manhattan is a small island with 8 million
residents and it seems like just as many cars

3. There is literally no place to legally park so I have to double park I quickly run
into the building, deliver the package and get back to the truck before I get a
parking ticket My job is to deliver our premium early morning packages
Generally there are just a couple packages per building and the doorman signs
for the packages so Im not blocking traffic and not double parked for more
than a minute or so Its in and out of the building quick as a ninja, and back to
the truck Usually, I didnt get many parking tickets, maybe one or two per
month Sometimes I might go as long as two months without a single parking
ticket And I never got tickets when I worked on a Saturday

4. But about 2 years age, that began to change Instead of one or two parking
tickets per month, I started getting one or two per week Over the last year that
has now escalated to one or two tickets per day and instead of no tickets on
Saturday, I get a ticket EVERY Saturday Same route, same streets, same
time - The only variable is the amount of tickets parking games Last Friday, I
hit a new record high (or record low, depending on your point of view) 5
parking tickets in 1 hour FIVE!

5. In One Hour! Written by 5 different traffic cops (And at $115 bucks a pop,
that aint cheap) Here's what happened I got back to my truck within 2
minutes of double parking it and there was a traffic cop, in the middle of writing
my third parking ticket for that day

6. I recognized the cop because he has written me many tickets in the past and
we chat every now and then When he saw me coming he said to me I love
seeing UPS trucks Its an easy ticket to write because you guys dont argue
with us and give us a hard time I move on and continue delivering packages
About 10 minutes later, I come out a building and there is a female cop writing
me ticket #4 I pick up the other 3 tickets, show her and say to her, This is a
new record, 4 tickets in less than an hour She apologetically says to me, Im
sorry I didnt know

7. You should have said something Or you should have at least put the tickets
on the front of the truck so we could see them I said Thanks for the tip I
think Ill try that So I go to the next stop, but this time I have the 4 tickets
visibly displayed on the front of the truck, tucked in by the windshield When I
come out of the building, Lo and Behold, there is another traffic cop writing me
ticket #5 I guess he didnt want anyone to see how many tickets I had, so he
picked up the other 4 tickets and folded them all together along with ticket #5,
so it only looked like one ticket Cmon Mayor Bloomberg - Give UPS a break!

8. parking games