angry

My car needed repairs. I am incredibly lucky that I have local friends who could help me take the car to the shop. (The main problem was with the steering, so a strong, healthy, person could drive it when I could not.) My friends even lent me a car I could drive during the week it took for mine to be repaired.

When I first parked the borrowed car in the lot behind my apartment building, I realized I didn't have a parking sticker for it. I live in a town that does not permit ANY on-street parking overnight, so I had to park in the lot. I phoned the maintenance company (ie, the super, the person to call for any building issues), and left a message explaining the situation and giving the license plate number of the borrowed car. I asked them not to tow it, and gave my phone number and my apartment number. I left a message, of course, rather than talking to anybody, because it was the middle of the night. Nobody called me back. I didn't worry about it. I was busy worrying about the car repairs themselves. (The fact that the borrowed car had summer tires, and only a small ice scraper, while I left my good snow-clearing gear in the trunk of my car, was also worrisome.)

They towed the car. They took it Friday afternoon. I didn't notice it was gone when I came back with the repaired car, Friday evening. (I was too tired.) I noticed it when I went out to return the borrowed car. When I called the super to ask what could have happened to the car, he said, "Of course it got towed, if it has no sticker." I mentioned the phone message I had left. He said that didn't matter, because the car had no sticker. I paid the tow truck operator to reclaim the car, and gave it back to the friends who lent it to me.

I am very upset about this. I don't think I am quite upset enough to move, but I am very upset.