Toronto Delivers

I was stuck for 35 minutes waiting for the person (this one on the picture) to fix the parking lever so that it opens because the machine did not spit out a parking ticket for me. I came in at around 3p the other day at the Parking Garage under the Marriott on Bay between Jarvis and Yonge and there was no ticket after I pressed the button. I called the person and after 5 minutes someone answered and said they will come in to fix it. The person (this one on the picture) came in but did not have paper with him. You'd think he would have it because I told whomever answered my call that there was no paper. Then his key would not work and had to call someone else to assist him. Once he got the key he handed me a ticket (he happened to be carrying one on his pocket - must be his?) and had to hand push the lever because it would not open since there was no transaction that happened at the machine. No inane is this? Quite especially when the process should be in place because these things do happen - the machines run out of paper. So the moral of the story? Allot lots of time when you are planning on parking your car in the city because something like may happen to you and waste 35 minutes of your time. ~ richard