People Have Different Goals

On Sunday, shortly after I paid a whole $1 for parking, I spotted this sign:


minneapolis parking meter


Maybe I’m blind, but I don’t think the goal of the person who put that sign there was to stop people from paying for parking on Sundays. Their job and goal was to put a sign up with the parking hours. If anyone called to complain that they just paid for parking when they didn’t have to, they could say, “We put up a sign.”


If the goal was to stop people from paying, why not put the sign where people pay? There wasn’t a...

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Published on December 17, 2012 16:22
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