Just this weekend my husband and I set out to visit the Blueberry Festival in Brooksville, Fl. It was a beautiful day out and a nice relaxing motorcycle ride seemed like just the ticket, and a trip for a piece of Blueberry Pie sounded great. However, once we arrived at the festival, things took a different turn. Not only was there major congestion, but there was no where to park unless you wanted to pay $10.00 for a parking place. Seriously. I’m going to pay $10.00 to park my motorcycle so I can walk through this festival for at the most an hour and get a piece of pie. No way. So, we turned around and headed back towards home.
Now, this got me thinking. Who the heck ever came up with this parking fee crap? Really. Disney wants you to pay $85.00 to enter their park, and yet, they charge you to even park on their lot. Busch Gardens is the same way, as well as major sports events and a host of other places. When the heck did this become acceptable? They want our business and want us to pay to park there. It’s ludicrous, and yet, people do it. How else would we be able to spend the day there? Drop from the sky? Take a cab and get dropped off?
I think people really need to start fighting back on this. Parks and sports events already charge outrageous prices to attend, and then paying to park. Would you go to the grocery store and pay to park? Would you pay to park at your Dentist office or Doctors office? After all, they are providing you a service, not just entertainment. And yet, people in this country will pay loads of money to be entertained, but that’s an entirely different blog.
Personally, I’m tired of it. Vendors at the Blueberry Festival probably lost out on revenue because people only have so much disposable income to throw around at a place like that, and if they are spending $10.00 to park, that comes right off of the top. Of course, everyone lost out on our money because we declined to stay and I’m sure other folks felt the same way.
All I can say is boy, what a nice little racket these places have going on. Come inside, spend all your money with us…but before you do, we want to line our pockets further by “letting” you park here….for a fee of course.
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