Gaslamp City Square Garage

I won’t ever park my car here again. I was staying downtown and stupidly parked my car in this lot. $ 20 for overnight did not seem unreasonable. So I parked my car. Big mistake. When I came back at 10am to get the car out, there was nobody working there. I paid at the self-​service meter — which is a really bad system. I finally just started pushing the unlabeled buttons and eventually my credit card was charged the $ 20. I drove over to the gate to get out. It said to scan the ticket, which I did several times. Nothing happened. I finally inserted the ticket. Then the ticket got stuck. I pressed the call button. It went to voice mail. I tried to get the ticket out. It wouldn’t budge. I pressed the call button again. Straight to voice mail. I sat at the gate for about 10 more minutes, trying to get out. I called several more times. No answer, just voice mail. Now it was about 10:20am. Still nothing. Some nice young men passing by raised the gate for me and I got out; the parking ticket is still stuck in the machine. I feel sorry for anyone trying to get out of that lot today. I doubt that they will go fix it anytime soon. I left them my phone number, but nobody called. So happy I didn’t wait around for them, since it is now almost 11am. I probably would have been stuck all day if those nice young men hadn’t let me out of there. Zero plans to ever use this facility again when I go out downtown. Who has time to be stuck waiting forever for nobody to call back or help you get out of the parking facility?