Comments on: The parking class

By: Leo

Leo — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:12:39 +0000

Americans! Your passive aggressive posts are very funny! Thanks for entertaining us.

By: PandoraWombat

PandoraWombat — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:19:18 +0000

You know, until just now I had no idea that construction workers had special needs. Thanks for educating me.

By: Bear

Bear — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:28:16 +0000

I had a neighbor who suffered from the same untimely condition. I call it untimely because we never know when it will strike, but nobody wants nor needs it. I came to understand it as loneliness and confusion. It causes people to strike out at others in an attempt to say, ” hey, I’m over here and I really don’t like my life and I have no one to turn to.” It would have been easy to strike back at the rudeness of her note about my parking in front of her house, but I felt something telling me to look closer at the situation. I knocked on her door and when she answered I introduced myself as the person belonging to the car in front of her house and asked if I could visit with her. At first she was very defensive and guarded. I smiled and appologized for causing her any discomfort or inconvenience and explained why I had parked there and told her I would not park there in the future. I guess my smile and lack of aggression set her at ease because her shoulders relaxed and her eyebrows returned to a normal position on her face. It was at this point that I asked her her name. Since I had already told her my name, it was only fair that she tell me hers. She did, and in a very short time, Irene and I were chatting about everything from the weather to favorite foods. Irene wasn’t a mean person at all but she was lonely and confused. The loneliness part is easy to understand but the confused part is not. Being lonely and being alone are not the same thing. For Irene, the lack of close friends and the lack of self love had created the loneliness condition that drove her to striking out at whoever parked in front of her house. That was the closest person she could contact for help…….. only her cries for help were abusive to most people. What I learned from this is that this person’s issue wasn’t someone parking in front of her house but rather someone parking in front of her house that wasn’t coming to see her. I guess if I was Irene’s age, alone, most of my friends already in the cemetary, I would probably do the same thing. She was trying to make contact with another life form……that was all. Anyhow, I still park my car in front of Irene’s house from time to time because, A. she invited me to and B. because the notes now invite me to share a beverage and some home made cookies when I return.

I doubt if all encounters would have turned out as mine did, but we’ll never know if we don’t try. It’s so easy to see everyone who confronts us as an obsticle rather than an opportunity to grow. Here’s to growing!

By: richgilberto

richgilberto — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:56:58 +0000

MJ…

Fox?

By: richgilberto

richgilberto — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:52:45 +0000

Dear Driver,

Parking your car here is fine, but the horse trailer is a bit ridiculous.

By: richgilberto

richgilberto — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:46:42 +0000

“They’re the worst.”
-Jerry Seinfeld

By: richgilberto

richgilberto — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:40:38 +0000

They do this in Brooklyn, too. I have a collection of cones that I keep in my back seat from parking in spots that “belong” to these people.

Sure, there may have been another spot on the street, but:
a) the guy’s an asshole for trying to get around the “no one can find a spot in brooklyn” thing
and
b) he left the cone in the street. it can be considered garbage at that point. call me a “freegan”.

I have done the “nice” thing when people leave their garbage pails in the street: I put them on the curb where they belong before I park. Sometimes I put it on their porch. Sometimes, if I’m in a hurry, I’ll just run it over.

I’ve gotta hand it to one guy for his creativity though – he has a movable fire hydrant that he keeps in front of his house. I park there all the time, but that’s because I want to get a ticket and actually win for once.

Cue the Dennis Leary song…

By: Skanky Skeezer

Skanky Skeezer — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:28:39 +0000

My aunts and uncles made an unannounced visit and stayed a couple days at the parents’ house. The directly accross the street neighbors literally drive around and pick out code violations on all the houses in the subdivision then report people, so they apparently took it upon themselves to notify the police that a car had been parked, omg and this his so terrible, on the street…OVERNIGHT! I don’t much care for my relatives and my uncle is a pedophile so personally I thought it was funny, but my family was not amused.

By: Vaunted help

Vaunted help — Sat, 31 May 2008 22:31:56 +0000

My favorite bit is the signoff – “Resident(s) of…”

It’s that enraged sense of “I may be only one voice, but I speak on behalf of all right-minded citizens whether they want it or not!”

By: Don't PANic!

Don't PANic! — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:07:48 +0000

This nearly made me shit.

We live next door to two coffin-dodgers that have coveted a parking space for the past four years.

Last year when my wife was heavily preganant and struggling to walk any distance greater than from our house to the car parked outside they decided to park there instead. They kept this up for a few months and have now returned to the original space.

Of course I chose not to superglue a PAN to their car but have chalked it up with all the other shit you don’t expect to endure from two people in their 70′s.

By: Don't PANic!

Don't PANic! — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:55:15 +0000

“We have many children, elderly, handicapped, and construction workers on our block. . . ”

I guess there’s a suggestion that they share the same mental age?

By: MJ

MJ — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:24:15 +0000

If any of you assholes in here knew what it was like to live with Parkinsons Disease, you wouldn’t use it for your own amusement.

That is all.

By: Mike Kushnir

Mike Kushnir — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:18:55 +0000

ohh…

someone just got served. like, seriously.

is that *peer-ownage* i hear in the distance?

By: Erika

Erika — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:58:21 +0000

Parking in most parts of that neighborhood can be hellacious. I know, I live there. It’s a well-known trick to park in a more out-of-the-way street (like 16th Ave.) to avoid driving in circles looking for a parking spot. It’s funny; the few times I’ve done that myself, I was slightly concerned that some resident would lose their shit over it.

Oh, and it should be mentioned that many/most houses on Capitol Hill don’t have private driveways.