parking coupon is the best thing since slice bread.quidsin wrote:Can someone please explain to me what this coupon car parking thing is all about?
quidsin Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject: Coupon Car Parking
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Can someone please explain to me what this coupon car parking thing is all about?
We were in Holland Village for the first time last night and managed to find a car parking space, a rarity I'm told! Anyway, I asked some guy where the sticker ticket mahcine was located and he looked at me like I was mental? He said that I had to buy a day parking coupon from 7-11 shop. So off I went and the charming lady behind the counter said they only had night coupons left. She said I could try the magazine shop so i went over there and they didn't have any either. So, what do you do....well, there were these guys in little uniforms patrolling the car park so I'm thinking they'll be able to sell me one, but they didn't have them either. But, they did Valet Parket or $8 per visit..wow!!!
So the moral of the story is, sometimes I'm amazed how efficeint and orderly stuff works in Singapore but then on occasions you find the most screwed up systems you could ever think of....and this is one of them...gees.
how can it be a screwed up system??? you are in a foreign country and you got to adapt to it's system, not the system adapt to you. i think it's your friend that screwed you up!quidsin wrote:It's my friends car and she has given it to me for a few weeks but never explained this screwed up system to me - sorry, I'm sticking by my guns guys...
-coin(s) in machine
-prints ticket
-place ticket on dashboard
-don't need to find a shop
how can a piece of paper purchased in a shop be any more efficient? don't tell me that no one has ever parked in a space and then realised that they are out of tickets.
Don't you know that everything here should be exactly the same as it was in our home countries? That's why we move here, so everything can be the samedurain wrote:how can it be a screwed up system??? you are in a foreign country and you got to adapt to it's system, not the system adapt to you. i think it's your friend that screwed you up!quidsin wrote:It's my friends car and she has given it to me for a few weeks but never explained this screwed up system to me - sorry, I'm sticking by my guns guys...
-coin(s) in machine
-prints ticket
-place ticket on dashboard
-don't need to find a shop
how can a piece of paper purchased in a shop be any more efficient? don't tell me that no one has ever parked in a space and then realised that they are out of tickets.
Jeppo wrote:Don't you know that everything here should be exactly the same as it was in our home countries? That's why we move here, so everything can be the samedurain wrote:how can it be a screwed up system??? you are in a foreign country and you got to adapt to it's system, not the system adapt to you. i think it's your friend that screwed you up!quidsin wrote:It's my friends car and she has given it to me for a few weeks but never explained this screwed up system to me - sorry, I'm sticking by my guns guys...
-coin(s) in machine
-prints ticket
-place ticket on dashboard
-don't need to find a shop
how can a piece of paper purchased in a shop be any more efficient? don't tell me that no one has ever parked in a space and then realised that they are out of tickets.![]()
Singaporeans are pretty much an information counter until someone mentioned something that is not favourable. eg, read the OP post , especially the last few sentences.RULDS wrote:Ouch...I think a stone hit me while you guys are throwing them at this poor chap.
Some people are over sensitive when a person might thoughtfully question a certain procedure or need help in an explanation. Just because we in Singapore doesn't mean they are 100% perfect. It feels like as soon as someone questions something about Singapore people hop all over them and kindly tells them that they are a stupid/arrogant foreigner.
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