Dude, Where's My Eurovan?
Seattlest has been waiting for this moment to roll around for some time now. How many places in this city offer unmonitored, free parking so damned close to downtown? REI just announced that they're moving to a pay system for anyone parking in their lot for over an hour. Pay up, otherwise your shiny new Eurovan will be keeping the big pink Toe warm, down the street at Lincoln Towing.
How they will do this without the requisite customer validation scheme, we don't know. REI apparently has had it up to their fleece-scarved necks with people working nearby who use their lot for all-day free parking, who then complain once their car got towed that they really were just popping in to pick up a multi-tool and a new nalgene bottle. Really.
Anyone there over an hour will have to pay. So the next time you spend over 45 minutes agonizing whether you need that $400 sleeping bag that goes down to -20 degrees, and then another 20 minutes totally unable to decide if the $30 pea-green Royal Robbins t-shirt looks better on you than the $39 lime-green North Face t-shirt--blame Paul Allen for that $2 you had to spend on parking.
