Talk about compounding insult with injury. It's torture enough getting up at 5AM to go to the gym. But yesterday really hit a new low when some cop had nothing better to do than to slap us with parking tickets while we slaved away inside Koko. I couldn't believe it.
It turns out there is no curbside parking on Park Avenue before 8AM - not that there is a sign saying so. The only sign in proximity restricts parking to 2 hours between 8AM and 5PM. So not only are we being held responsible for an unposted law, we have to take time off from work for traffic court if we want to fight it.
Besides the unfairness of it all, the idea of penalizing local residents for frequenting local businesses is sheer madness in this economy. Long Beach is in danger of losing its anchor tenant - Waldbaum's - so you would think the city would be doing everything it could possibly do to help other businesses stay strong. Making it impossible for Koko members to use the club during certain hours of the day is just plain senseless.
Welcome to the mad, mad, mad world of Long Beach. Where reality often defies logic.
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