Christopher L. Jorgensen
PO Box 546
Ames, IA 50010

October 30, 2020

Parking Today Media
5777 W. Century Blvd.
Ste. 650
Los Angeles, CA 90045

Dear Parking Today,

​I like money, and I like writing, so I thought I would write you and see if “Parking Today” is a paying market. The way I see it, parking is an underrated subject! I’d love to cash a check from Parking Today for an article or two. I can pitch a few ideas, but I think you can understand my reluctance to do so without knowing if I will be paid on publication of my parking experiences. I’m one of those people with all kinds of ideas bouncing around in his head, so I am pretty sure I could pop out a parking article or five.

Once, I remember doing some holiday shopping and I was looking for a nice spot to park and I passed an angled parking space, so being a fairly decent driver I backed right into that spot and went to do my gift buying. You can imagine my surprise when I came back only to find a ticket on my 2000 Dodge Neon for parking backwards in an angled slot. Dumb! That was $15 down the drain, but I got so mad about it that I did the rest of my holiday shopping in Des Moines rather than Ames (where I live). I am sometimes a petty person, so I drove 30 miles out of my way to make sure that my sales tax went to a different city! I figured that ended up being way more of a revenue loss for Ames than what they made off my stupid fine. I mean, I get it. A lot of people are bad drivers and doing something like this would be difficult for them, but I found it easy. It’s also important to note that this was in a lot! It’s not like I was backing up into traffic or anything. I know ignorance of the law is no excuse, but man, I didn’t even know that was illegal. Anyway, maybe I could write up something like this for your readers? This was like 20 years ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday, and that $15 was real money back then.

I have tons of parking stories! I am one of those people who will park all the way far away from the store I am shopping at in the very last spot in the lot to make sure I get in a few extra steps of exercise (not that this seems to be helping much). That’s another idea I could write up. Parking as fitness! There are people out there who will circle for like 10 minutes just to get a closer space to the door of their health clubs. I’m not one of those people. I don’t even care if it’s raining.

I could go on all day about parking, so I really hope you are a paying market. I hate doing things for free, especially writing! It’s such a chore if there’s not money to be made, but I know you already know this. So go ahead and send me your rates and maybe we can work together. The more you pay, the more effort I will put in.

Sincerely,

Christopher L. Jorgensen