\u2022 I recently booked parking near Orlando International Airport at a great rate of $49.38 for seven days. Then the fees: Booking fee $6.49, lot taxes and fees $14.55, sales tax $4.15, privilege fee recovery charge (?) $6.39 and airport access fee $4. Total fees: $35.58. Not at all ticked off at the total cost, but what\u2019s next? \u201cFree parking\u201d and add a \u201chave a safe trip\u201d fee?<\/p>\n
\u2022 I\u2019m ticked off that \u201chigh volume\u201d is still being used as a reason\/excuse for slow customer service.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The younger generation can\u2019t understand how the older generation became \u201cwealthy.\u201d We don\u2019t buy every tech gadget that comes along, spend money on take-out coffees or give children everything they want. We don\u2019t buy more than we can afford, we repair rather than replace, we have a budget, limit eating out and don\u2019t order the most expensive item, stick with one job until we have another, pay attention to politics and vote, save for years to get into a home of our own. \u00a0And then one day, we are \u201cwealthy!\u201d<\/p>\n
The flip side<\/p>\n
\u2022 I want to publicly thank the young man who helped this 81-year-old navigate using the gas pump at the BJ\u2019s at S.R. 436 and U.S. 17-92. He was kind, patient and thoughtful. Your mother would be proud of you.<\/p>\n
\u2022 A thousand thanks to the kind, honest person who took my dropped phone to customer service at the Wekiva Plaza Publix. Words can\u2019t really adequately express my grateful thanks.<\/p>\n
NEED TO VENT?: I\u2019m Ticked Off! Are you? Write to tickedoff@orlandosentinel.com<\/a> or flipside@orlandosentinel.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022 I recently booked parking near Orlando International Airport at a great rate of $49.38 for seven days.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,114,482,139,141,140,109,76410,9591],"class_list":["post-429495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-florida","tag-latest-headlines","tag-opinion","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social","tag-social-opinion","tag-ticked-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}