I just read this article about how you can pay for parking meters using your cell phone. It's based from a Toronto company called PayMint. You just call the number on your cell phone, and enter your credit card, e-mail, license plate and telephone number. I was parking one time in downtown Toronto and saw that, and being the GadgetMan that I am, I wanted to try that, I thought that was pretty neat. However, I found out the drawbacks of technology, it didn't work! I called the number and I couldn't pay for the parking. So I called the technical support number and they said they were having problems with that service, so I couldn't pay by my cell phone.
Just thought to myself, I wasted almost 2 minutes and I couldn't pay, compared to I could have taken less than a minute to pay by coins and be out of there. I am not trying to be a skeptic, mind you, I love technology. It just makes me think how technology still isn't 100% reliable, there has to be a manual method as a backup.
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