August 12, 2007

• I went to Venice Beach, CA recently and had to park at this underground parking garage. It was $15 just to park there, but I really didn’t want to have to find another place to park at that point. I parked my car at a spot and approached the guy who I was suppose to pay. I gave him $20, and he gave me a receipt. Afterwards he gives me this parking stub to put on my car’s windshield. Then he walks away from me. I approach the guy and ask about my change. The guy tells me that he already gave “it” to me. I tell him no he didn’t, and he still tells me that he already gave “it” to me when he gave me the receipt, and even says to ask my fiancee about it. I play along at that point, and ask her about it, and she ofcourse tells me that we didn’t get the change back yet. I tell the guy that, and he out of nowhere tells me “ooohhhh, Don’t worry about it.” I almost laughed at that ridiculous answer, and thought I was living a “Russell Peters joke.” Then I flatly tell him “dude, the parking is $15 right? I gave you $20, so I still need $5 back in change.” From that he says “ooohh, yes, your change, I thought you were asking about the parking stub, we have a misunderstanding.” I didn’t even say anything at this point. He looks through his wad of cash and doesn’t even have $5 of change with him. He goes and gets change from another customer, and proceeds to give me the $5, and I take off.

  “Don’t worry about it.” Can you believe the guy? I wonder if he scammed a lot of tourist with that line.

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