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Meter attendants
recall incidents
■^Drivers will try almost
anything to avoid getting
stuck with parking tickets,
workers say
By Steve Ewing
for the Emerald
A student’s reaction to a
Department of Public Safety officer
depends on the situation.
But there is one situation,
however, where students almost
always react negatively to a person
with a badge: when that person is
holding a little yellow parking
ticket envelope.
DPS Officer Frank Lewis, 26,
said people try a variety of methods
when attempting to fool officers
and avoid getting tickets.
“Once, in the windshield, there
was one of those numbers you put
at the end of your table at a
restaurant,” Lewis said. “Or they’ll
put an old ticket envelope under
their windshield wiper to try to
make us think we’ve already been
there.”
People take advantage of the fact
that the one-day passes DPS sells
requires the purchaser to indicate
the day for which he or she is going
to use it.
Lewis said he has seen cars with
permits where the correct day is
barely indicated. He said these
people hope to keep them and use
them again on another day.
In contrast to many people’s jobs,
the duty of writing parking tickets
is not for the thin-skinned. For
these people, coming into work
each morning carries with it the
knowledge that they will, at some
point, be called a name.
Maria Velazquez, a parking meter
attendant for the city of Eugene,
said she has been called a “parking
Nazi,” among other things. Even
though she said most people’s
reaction to seeing her are negative,
Velazquez calls it “a fun job.”
“I see a lot of my friends on my
route,” she said. “And I’ve given
them tickets before.”
Most people who check parking
meters seem to have a pragmatic
view of their jobs. DPS officer
Thiago Valle, 23, is one of them.
Valle’s philosophy is that
“somebody has to do it.”
Because others’ view of his job is
often negative, he said he hopes
people remember two things about
his role on campus: Checking
parking meters is just one of his
duties, and DPS officers are people,
too.
Nearly every day, he helps
students jump-start their cars or
retrieve keys locked in the vehicle.
Valle looks forward to this aspect
of the job because the gratitude he
gets helps balance out the
negativity.
Valle understands that much of
the swearing and name-calling he
experiences is more than likely just
an expression of people’s daily
frustrations.
He recalls one incident, however,
which stands out in his memory.
“I gave this lady a ticket once,
and she was upset at me,” he said.
“As she was driving away, she said
that she wished I had a really,
really bad day. I felt like that
crossed the line.”
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