Seattle WA: They Paved Paradise
"Fast parking" at SEA
Parking is precious in Seattle.
Some of the city streets are impassibly narrow – maybe this keeps out the Texans.
People park on sidewalks, or at the bottom of paved gullies or in the bushes.
Seattle parking lots are institutions – each with their own personalities – like the early-bird downtown lots that require you to stay at least five hours to get the $15 rate, even if you want to leave after 4 and the per-hour rate is now $28.
Lots near the stadiums charge differing fees depending on who the opponent is. Some of the lots are literally guarded by alert tow truck drivers – yanking offenders without even yelling “hey” as they walk away.
By contrast, in parking-friendly cities like say, Spokane, if you see a tow truck, it is probably helping someone.
An elegant lady in her late 70’s told us yesterday that she selected her husband, “in part because of his proper use of ly’s” – referring to the chap’s big and perfect diction, adverb-wise. Adverbs are big in their family -- lovely, quickly, hungrily...
So we all laughed today when driving into Sea-Tac and the Port’s flashing reader board “Need to park fast? Use Terminal Direct…” Shouldn’t it be “Need to park quickly?“ “Parking fast” envisions lots of skidding -- a separate 60 mph lane dumping right into a Sea-Tac parking lot skid-pad, allowing for drifting, rubber-burning lurches down to 0 mph. “I’m here [biotches.]”
In any event, the “Terminal Direct” parking is not valet parking, but is on Floor 4 for today’s daily price of $35 (how much it will be when you return is another story…..)
See you on the skywalk!