Sunday, July 18, 2010

What The... Parking Ticket?!

Yes, I actually received a parking ticket in Korea. It's my second parking ticket, as a matter of fact. I always wonder why and how Korean police hand out parking tickets. What criteria do they use? Whimsy? Flint and I have spent many an afternoon at the patio at Dunkin' Donuts, looking at all the infractions in view, and saying that the cops could clean up if they ticketed everyone breaking the rules.
I was at Burger King the other day, watching the mooks push on the door marked "Pull," and saw this mook park his vehicle on a one lane street while he came inside and got a burger. He did a lot of milling around, looking up and down the street, as well.

Fucking mook.
As I was eating, another mook on a delivery scooter made his way up the sidewalk. Why use the road, right?

Here, he has parked his cycle in order to block the sidewalk and force pedestrians out on the road.
Fucking mook.

Here's a delivery truck, parked sort of in a bus stop, forcing the buses to edge around him, taking up two lanes of traffic.
Fucking mook.

This is pretty typical of the way mooks park in this country; up on the sidewalk. You can find them everywhere you go.
Fucking mook.

This is an example of the street near my con-apt, with mooks parked on both sides, narrowing it down to one lane, forcing any cars that meet to back up or give way.
Fucking mooks.

This asshole exhibits the tactic that fucking drives me nuts - parking on a corner. Not only is he blocking the door to the building, and parked facing the wrong way, but his ass is sticking out into traffic; anyone going around the corner has to make an extra wide turn to go around him. But the fucking mooks will park on a corner every time, even when there're spaces in the middle of the block.
Fucking mooks.

Here's another mook doing exactly the same thing.
Fucking mook.

While I was taking the above photo, another mook parked on the opposite side of the street, also facing the wrong way. Mooks don't care if they do this, even if it means they have to park out in the lane of traffic so they can get their door open.
Fucking mooks.
And I get a fucking ticket?!

6 comments:

  1. I always wondered about that first ticket you got. There were how many people parked around you? Not counting the side streets.

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  2. I guess they just know where not to park to not get a ticket somehow. When I see the delivery bikes parked like that, I just want to throw them into the street. The city of Icheon is where I saw the most mook parking. There was 300% more cars than there were parking spaces. It was ugly.

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  3. Sounds like my University parking lot. They only had about 300 parking spots but sold 1000 permits.

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  4. Wow...what a story... are there no signs?
    Maybe they saw that you tried to park correctly and it signaled to them you were from America?

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  5. I have read all of your entries and I enjoy you posts but started to follow because of this shit.

    its pure gold only makes me want to visit Korea even more. Mooks awwwwwwwwwwww

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  6. Thanks Forzizi. Even though they can drive a person crazy Mooks are usually good for some laughs. :)

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