“You want the office one door down,” the woman in the office said. “You can get your parking sticker there at 8:45.”<\/p>\n
That was more than an hour away.<\/p>\n
“Can I just come back some time during the day?”<\/p>\n
“Oh no,” they’ll only be there until five to nine.<\/p>\n
The parking sticker people were only going to be there for ten minutes<\/em>.<\/p>\n I returned about an hour later. It was 8:50. I had five minutes to spare — almost too late. The parking sticker lady was zipping her bag shut and beginning to leave the office.<\/p>\n I told her who I was. How I needed a parking pass. I introduced myself.<\/p>\n “I’m David,” I said, holding out my hand.<\/p>\n I don’t think she expected this, because she laughed.<\/p>\n “I’m Miss Lucy!” she said as we shook hands, and she handed me a form.<\/p>\n I filled most of it out but said, “I don’t know my plate number, do you need that?” <\/p>\n “Yes,” she said, “I need that.” <\/p>\n But she cut the form in half, put her half in her bag and handed me the other half, smiling broadly.<\/p>\n “You just write your plate number there when you get to your car. And make sure to tape it to your windshield.”<\/p>\n Then she zipped shut her bag and left. Clearly she was giving me a break. <\/p>\n “Thank you, Miss Lucy,” I said before she had left the room.<\/p>\n She laughed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One Door Down “You want the office one door down,” the woman in the office said. “You can get your parking sticker there at 8:45.” That was more than an hour away. “Can I just come back some time during the day?” “Oh no,” they’ll only be there until five to nine. The parking sticker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4950,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions\/4950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Miss Lucy<\/h3>\n