Can’t believe we influenced our SL with our “cheapo’ness”.

We were going to Marina Square to have dinner after service and was travelling in Eng Leong’s car. The “CARPARK FULL” sign was flashing so he decided to follow ZH’s recomendation to park at Millenia Walk.

However JBB’s big mouth and silly antics distracted him and he made a wrong turning and ended up going round the back of Marina Square towards the Esplanade.

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Told him the only way back was to make an illegal U-turn but he said there’s a way back through Raffles Link which I insisted was closed off due to some construction and when we turned in it was. JBB suggested to just illegally park there since where we’re eating is just next to the road but our law abiding SL decided not to.

So we thought of parking at Esplanade and drove down to take a look. JBB recalled the rates were $4 per entry the last time his dad parked there. But since there was a drop off point, we thought we’d just take a look.

Turned out JBB was right. Peaks hours were $4 per entry. But after 10pm, it’s $1!! And since it was only 10 mins to 10pm, we were like “Ooh let’s wait!”

So we turned out and but the road at the entrance was painted with doubled jagged yellow lines, meaning “No stopping, no waiting, no alighting”. But U-turning down the other side of Esplanade Drive, it was just double yellow lines, which means we can “stop” there!

So we parked ourselves at the slip road into the carpark and waited until 10pm. JBB’s watch was fast so we relied on our handphones which syncronises the clock with SG official time.

At 10:01pm, just to be safe, we cruised down the ramp and when we saw the time on the carpark ticketing screen showing 10:01, in we went cheering!

Hahahaha… can’t believe we made Eng Leong wait 8 mins just to save $3 in parking fees! Cheapo’fied by our cell.