Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 10:15:08 -0700
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From: Erik Rhodes <ErikRhodes@platsoft.com>
Subject: RE: beware of parking garages!
Thanks for the warning, I've always wondered about that! Nothing bad
has ever happened to me with that, but I always freak a little bit when
driving in those garages and seeing the ceiling so close to the top--it
provokes my natural protect-the-bus instinct!
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> From:
> resler@liberty.mas.vcu.edu[SMTP:resler@liberty.mas.vcu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 1997 10:13 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: beware of parking garages!
>
> Last weekend I attended a conference in the D.C. area where I stayed
> at a hotel with a basement parking garage. Since this was the only
> parking the hotel offered free, I very slowly and carefully pulled the
> van ('87 Westy) up to the overhead yellow barrier indicating the
> amount of clearance required to park in the garage. I jumped out and
> inspected the situation and ascertained that I had about 4 inches to
> spare to get under the bar.
>
> Well, call me naive, but I said "OK - go for it". I rolled under the
> barrier AOK, then proceeded (very slowly) down the entrance ramp and
> made a right-hand turn into the garage proper. As I was approaching
> the ticket-dispensing machine it happened - scraping sounds from the
> roof area!
>
> Oh dear. I immediately stopped and inspected the situation; the garage
> ceiling was smooth so the distance btw. the ceiling and floor was
> obviously narrowing. Well I wasn't wedged in (if I had been it would
> have been let-some-air-out-of-the-tires-time), so I began the process
> of reversing out of the garage. And that was a very tedious,
> nerve-racking experience which wasn't helped much by the fact that
> there were 2 cars behind me that had to reverse out as well!
>
> No real damage was done to the van, so there's a happy ending to this
> tale.
>
> Moral of the story? Don't blindly trust those height barriers at
> parking garages!
>
> dan
> --
> Dan Resler
>
> Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
> Virginia Commonwealth University
> Richmond, VA
> 23284-2014 USA
> email: resler@liberty.mas.vcu.edu
>
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