Downtown Janelle

So my friend Janelle and I went downtown one Saturday to take some prego pictures of her and we ended up parking in a garage building that had one of those mechanical barriers that lift when you pull the ticket and then when you leave you have to pay your ticket to the machine and then the thing lifts up again so you can exit.  However, on the way out the thing wouldn't open.  And there was no attendant.  And noone answered the phone when i called the customer service number.  There was another car behind us and we just could not figure out how to open the stupid thing.  I even thought of driving through the thing cuz my car is old and i already has a few dents but i wasn't sure how badly it could damage my car.  Damon said good thing i didn't :).  So that was when Janelle came up with the great idea to maybe walk to the other side and pull a ticket as if a car was going in and I will be ready to go under the raised thingy (going the opposite way since that side was working).  Brilliant! Well, but the smart garage thingy people had thought about that too and no ticket was coming out because we assumed a car had to be there and even though Janelle was pregnant - could not fool the machine.  She even jumped several times.  But no.  And the car behind us was still waiting.  So Janelle came up with another smart idea.  Since there was some room between the wall and the thing that raises, and the other people's car was smaller, she convinced the lady driver that she can "squeeze in".  So while her car was on the other side, going the wrong was, and I was ready to go behind her, Janelle will pull a ticket and we both will be ready to just drive off in the couple seconds the thing was up.  Guess what?  IT WORKED!!!! it was a fun little adrenaline rushed photo shoot!