The Ongoing Rant; "Tuesday Morning Parking..."

35 min to find an alternative place to park the car this morning. Right side closed for weekly street clean up, left side filled with cars, then opened ... and nope cement trucks, opened... nope neighbor from across the street instructs me to leave the space telling me it s a driveway. Yaa budy.. the only car that could drive in there would be a mini micro beetle and even then it would be a tight squeeze. Dumb moron neighbor, it s the front door sidewalk! So I'm back to driving around if only to shut him up, I find an empty street with the left side to park... nope closed street altogether for the last few days. Here we go, open space, legal on Tuesdays anddd you need a permit for this street! Arrrgggg !! Okay another wide opened space aaannnndddd tree pruning signs anyone? No you know what enough is enough! 35 min that I have been driving around this forsaken area. So I 'm risking it until 10:30 when I can return to my original parking area.

10:32 I 'm back at my car and behind me the cities' red and screeching herald of parking tickets yet to come is driving by my car while I am turning her back on. Sirens and blinkers flashing, it slowly drives up the street screaming with it s horns for the owners numbering in about a dozen to move their cars or pay the fines. 10:40 finally back to it s original parking space, my car is safe... until the next Tuesday.

 

On the plus side, Street Clean-Up & Garbage day makes for great butterfly pictures by the leftover fruit scraps on the neighborhood lawn :)) See next blog entry.