Today, while I was visiting my friend who goes to ...

Today, while I was visiting my friend who goes to Georgia Tech, I was wrongfully booted while shopping and eating dinner. She and I temporarily crossed the street to grab food to go. We went into Ponce City Market to get food from Farm to Ladle (we have receipts) and then proceeded to leave, to come to shop in Midtown Plaza. We were not over there for very long, maybe like 15 minutes maximum. We sat outside of the Starbucks, which we were under the impression was on Midtown Plaza property. We ate and talked for about an hour and then went to the car to drop our left over food. We then went to TJ Maxx where my friend bought shirt for work. When we arrived back at the car, there was a boot. Our entire evening lasted around 1 hour and 45 minutes, for which we were patrons of Midtown Plaza for most of it. We contacted the booting company and waited for someone to hear our complaints.

Chris refused to hear us out and was not lenient in the charges and did not show us respect. We requested that the manager came over and he refused to give us his name. We were appalled to see that Chris had photos of us walking across the street on his phone. We are two, young, 19 year old women who are greatly disturbed at the thought of a man having photos of us on his personal cell phone. He didn t care for our concerns about this topic and this made us feel extremely violated. They said that they had seen us recently go into TJ Maxx (which is true because we dropped our food off in the car before shopping for clothes). The fact that they were watching us makes us feel incredibly creeped out. Finally, the manager gave us his name (Richard), but refused to make eye contact with us as he spoke to us. Another couple was getting booted in the same lane and began to yell at the men. We did not yell at the men because they are just employees doing their job.

I cannot even begin to express how violated, infuriated, and undermined I feel. If we patroned stores in this parking lot and spent most of our time in the plaza, this fine should not exist. If you feel you need to fine us for the few minutes we grabbed our food to go, there should be a prorated rate. We do not appreciate being followed around in the city by strange men, having our photo taken and being stalked.

If we were booted right after we walked across the street temporarily (which is how Richard and Chris made it seem), then why were we watched for the rest of the evening? Why did they take photos of us? The actions of this booting company reflect poorly against the entire plaza and we will not be patroning there again. I can go to a different TJ Maxx where I am allowed to shop without paying an unjust $75 fine and without getting stalked.

Thank you.