My driveway is available if anyone if anyone wants to park on it instead of the hospital. Just a five minute walk.

From here of course.

I will be PM ing you as necessary! Many thanks!

That's what I mean. Additional security needed.

Mainly though, there are at least 200 parking spaces at our hospital. The "full" sign is illuminated most of the day from about 9.00am on. When you consider that out patients and visitors are only there for a couple of hours with people leaving and people taking their place that's several hundred people every day asking the receptionist (and they're not all out patients with appointments in the system, they could be walk-ins and visiting patients) to check they have a hospital reason to use the car park and validate their chit.

No. No additional security. No. I was a hospital security guard, and I was a security guard in a big hotel with a parkade so I've done the job. Shopping centres with parkades often have some businesses that validate parking stubs, it isn't hard.

I did hotel security in California at a large hotel.

Oh the things I saw. Got to know the police well.

Oh yeah! One of my early jobs was porter in the old Hotel Saskatchewan and that's the end of innocence right there. I had no idea... It's a far better job than security even though a bit boring because the tips are substantial and it isn't confrontational. As security they expect you to go talk to the drunken superstar who played his concert and is now ranting at 2 AM keeping the neighbours up, and they don't really want to evict him - you get a hair over minimum wage and no back up from management. (I finally assured him we would throw him out and he shut up but it took a long time and I hated it.) I turned my parkade rounds into a game and figured out the best strategies for catching thieves and vandals and glue sniffers in the stairwells, approaching from either side and carefully listening at the doors, coming from the upper levels quietly down the ramps. Once I saw 2 young men, 1 a lookout looking down the ramp and the other breaking into a car and I knew I'd never catch them so I pretended I was a little drunk and asked if they could help me and they both walked right into my arms. For $3.50/hr you have to make your own fun.

Yes, but that was part of what your job was. This isn't currently a part of the security staff job. There's a charge for parking so there is currently no need to go out and "mark the bad cars" because there are none. The cars are legitimately parked because people pay.

So to start doing it is additional. They'd have to go out to the parking lot and do rounds at various points in the day that they don't currently do. I imagine they'd wonder where the time would come from without extra staff?

Keith Moon?

You're right Bristol. You've been right all along and I was lying. There are no security checks regularly done of hospital parking lots or anywhere else. The attendant in the little booth doesn't have to check on the cars that have been there all day to see if they overstay and the attendant in the little suv that drives around looking for stubs on dashboards is just listening to the radio and looking out the window. It wouldn't make any sense to have some cars whose owners are eligible to have their tickets validated because it would be extra work for the receptionist to stamp them, it would be extra, and the guy in the booth wouldn't know what to do if presented with a validated ticket, because it would be extra. I'm not going to let the facts or experience get in the way. No. That would be extra.

Andre Phillipe Gagnon, iirc.

Well I can only speak for the Hospital car park here where you pay according to stay. There's an hourly rate. They get a ticket on entry and pay according to stay when leaving. There's no need to check how long a car is there, it's on the ticket.

Sounds like a better class of drunk superstar.

And with all due respect they are two different specialities. The NHS method of going looked after by a specialist in your condition rather than your GP makes more sense to me.

Prescriptions issued in Ontario hospitals are free. As Out patients they aren't. As you had started your medications in hospital then the rest of the prescription run would have been issued free.

That's nice. What about if you went into Emerge, got checked over/repaired/sent home as it's only bruised ribs etc and they gave a prescription for percocet or something?

My mother in law tells me that in Quebec she had to pay $2 for a dressing when her husband was treated.

Nope, not that night, just another inconsiderate asshole.