don’t turn your car over to valet parkers.
If you can afford a place that has valet parking, you can afford a gallons of gas, FCS.
djm
Well, North Beach IS the most impossible place to park, just about, because there aren’t as many garages as downtown (the Financial District). On a rainy night, in fancy clothes, I could see it, but I have always been loathe to turn my chariot over to the grimy fellows.
For suburbanites, especially, parking and driving in SF is harrowing enough to keep 'em out of the city. Which the non-business-owning locals think is just dandy.
I just think the story is hilarious, especially the confrontation with the !@hole contractor at the end.
maybe bring a pizza with you to pay them off.
Whats the price of fuel there in the bay area?
Actually, the city garages have valet parking for no extra charge. We always park in the Ellis-O’Farrell garage and use the valet option…it’s easier than driving around and around and getting frustrated, and doesn’t cost a cent more than if we did it ourselves. It’s just a fact of life in the city…doesn’t mean you’re rich at all. But I would be really pissed if I found out these guys were driving all over town in my car…never mind the gas, what about the insurance?
Redwolf
I was just curious about the fuel prices in Frisco? as things are high$$$ there.
Well, I can’t speak for San Francisco, but about 70 miles south in Santa Cruz, we’re paying about $3.60 for premium ($3.39 for regular).
Errr…btw, don’t call it “Frisco.”
Redwolf
Thought this was going to be one of those stories about people turning their car keys over to a guy with a homemade “VALET PARKING” sign. In that instance the cars do more than just go for a pizza. 
No kidding. The guy gets busted, and he scrabbles about with this: ‘“You have no right to do what you are doing right now…You are interfering with my business,” Zira said.’
I had no idea free enterprise was sacrosanct. I’ll have to remember that.
And I never thought it could come to this, Weeks, but it’s loath. “Loath” is what you are; “loathe” is what you do. 
Here ya go:
http://www.sanfrangasprices.com/
You buggers over there are paying less than one third of what we have to pay for “gas” (“petrol” is the correct term BTW. Avoids confusion with the multifarious other meanings of the word “gas,” I find). I never, never, EVER want to hear any of you complaining about “gas” prices ever again. 
you could try this…
Denny, old chap, you may have ultra-cheap gas, but WE have beer that IS beer.
we do too…
their advertising budget is a bit smaller than Budweiser’s
You wish!
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I seem to remember something similar, but worse, happening with the long-term parking at Heathrow. It was a particular firm - there are various ways to commit long-term parking at Heathrow, and this was one private contractor. Customers began to get suspicious when they noticed their cars had odd bumps and dents that they did not have previously. Petrol tanks varied in amount from what they were left with.
It turned out that staff were “borrowing” the vehicles for the week-end - driving from London up to Scotland and back (well, it would have to be back, wouldn’t it). The firm went bust shortly after these revelations.
I remember hearing about it on the radio, but I can’t find a whisper of it on the internet. Not a sausage.
To be honest, parking three-quarters of a mile away from a place where the parking is particularly bad, doesn’t sound like such a bad deal to me. So what if they use a customer’s car to fetch the staff back. Buying a pizza - that’s naughty. But it doesn’t compare with borrowing the car for the weekend.
oh, I like it!!!
so much more tasteful than that Chafing one!