Editor:
Ralph Kreider was spot on in his letter about the Reading Parking Authority and its impersonal machines (“Parking authority policies hurt image of Reading,” Reading Eagle, Dec. 26). My experience was exactly the same. I was at the Court Street garage, and a family in front of me told me I could put cash in the machine. A woman explained how she put $2 into the machine and then had to use her credit card for the balance. She didn’t tell me the machine didn’t give change because she wasn’t aware of this fact. I owed $4, put $10 in and received no change. I looked very hard for any written notice that no change would be given but saw nothing on the machine.
I asked a courthouse security guard if he knew the machine wasn’t giving change and he gave a good chuckle. I asked him if this was written somewhere on the machine and he said yes. I guess my middle-aged eyes couldn’t see it. Why wouldn’t The Reading Parking Authority return our change?
The answer is found in Proverbs 10:24: “As for the scoundrel — his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.”
We need honest people in leadership positions. This is not honest and it hurts Reading more than helps it.
Dawn Koffke Houser
Hamburg
Source: Berkshire mont
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