Salem's Wet, Boston's Lot

Friday: With 16" of rain last week in parts of New England, the drive from CT to MA was a real trip... It totally pissed it down, and I mean PISSED it down, ALL the way along the 170 miles of Interstate to Boston... when you felt you'd had enough you realised there was still more to go... that was probably THE most intense drive ever...

Saturday: Salem was wet, interesting, but full of cheap tourist traps.



Sunday: Boston was excellent, prettier, more cosy than NYC

And parking, well, in the presence of BBFK that's a story in itself...

Parking was the easy bit - we grabbed a ticket from the machine, found a parking spot and headed to the elevator down to the streets of Boston... just before the big sign...

TAKE YOUR TICKET WITH YOU

Lever: "You got the ticket?"
BBFK: "Oh Shit!"

BBFK rummages in trash can

Lever: "WTF are you doing?"
BBFK: "I put the ticket in my pocket then threw the litter from my pocket in the trash... wait... here it is..."

BBFK pulls our crumpled ticket from trash can, complete with unidentified filth on it

Lever: "Thanks honey, and for the brown goo on it too. Thanks"
BBFK: "Sorry."

The parking fees were going to be stupid but just about worth it to park so close to the Freedom Trail and stuff like that. Any stay over 80 minutes up to 24 hours was $29.00 !! Fucking expensive but hey, it made me feel at home...

We spend the day in Boston - awesome. Interesting. Homely.
We get back to the car park - I insert the ticket in the pay-point.

You owe us $58.00

What??? $58.00??

BBFK asks the assistant for er... assistance. She checks our ticket... she shows it to us... it states, quite cleraly, that we parked up sometime on Saturday. Saturday?? How the fuck did we manage that??

It turns out BBFK has only gone and pulled the wrong ticket from the trash can... when she volunteered to have a look in the trash again for our ticket I just said "no honey, no"...

So yeah, we get interrogated, stripped, searched... Nah, not really, they just checked a list of the plates of the cars in overnight and found we weren't listed. Whew. Thank fuck for that. It's ONLY $29.00. Yeehah!!

I think BBFK was a Parking Warden in a past life...