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By adamg on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 2:05pm
Dear fellow parent of an incoming Boston Latin School student,
You do our case no favors when you double-park your big-ass Suburban in front of a parking space big enough even for you on Avenue Louis Pasteur while waiting for your kid to come out.
Sheesh.
Note to Brett: Yeah, there was double parking today. But even with Surburban Parent, traffic continued to flow.
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And...
...if you had taken the picture from the other side you would've caught the driver sticking its Chihuahua's ass out the window to poop in the middle of the street....without picking it up.
Pretty sure the kid being picked up was the actual Craigslist killer (Markoff was a fall guy), a jaywalker and has been seen jumping women in the North End (Coast Guard exculpated).
i.e., please let's not have another rehash of that horribly boring thread on Boston Latin students.
why go here?
if you don't want to end up here?
Is it true, Chihuahua's ass etc?
I heard that BLS students
I heard that BLS students spread lyme disease and avian flu.
Actually....
..I hear that the lil' snowflakes poop in the street and their parents won't pick up after them!
lest we forget
they are also harboring a substantial Vampire-American contingent.
We get it
All right, dude, we get it: parents suck at driving, the whole Longwood complex is a nightmare even on a good day, and you think Boston Latin kids are precious snowflakes.
Can we stop manufacturing outrage every day over exactly the same story, now? This exact same idiocy happens hundreds of times every day in Southie or Coolidge Corner or most anywhere there are cars + idiocy, which is every part of the metro area.
What planet are you on?
Yesterday was posted by Brett. Adam (being a BLS student's parent) defended against Brett's rant. Today's post is from Adam chastising one of the waiting parents who was being extra-special douchey...even worse than what Brett complained about and Adam defended.
Different story, different day. Take a deep breath, go check out Cute Overload for a while and get back in the game. You can do it, I believe in you!
Dumbshits don't know how to parallel park
Double parking across an empty space seems to be pretty commonplace, and I can only surmise that it's because so many dumbshits don't know how to parallel park. A lot of said dumbshits also extend this dumbshittery to not knowing how other, competent drivers parallel park, so I frequently find that I'll signal, pull up in front of the spot, then start to back in and find either 1) someone up on my ass, honking and refusing to go around or back off my ass or 2) someone trying to head into the spot and failing repeatedly.
RE: #2
Obligatory Seinfeld link:
Re: Dumbshits don't know how to parallel park
But they sure know how to execute a block. Besides Eeka's example, one of my *top*three* parallel parking tricks happens enough around here that it's clearly part of Masshole Driver (MD) culture:
MD's been hovering like a vulture in the double-parking lane, forcing other cars to dodge around her as she waits for a space to open up. Notices that I'm about to vacate one. Claims dibs on the space by pulling up directly IN FRONT of me, forcing me to execute a sharp-angle evasive maneuver to get on my way. Unspeakably rude.
Wow
You should have re-parked the car and gone for a walk.
You're right
I threatened that once, and it worked -- the driver grudgingly re-positioned herself behind me, so I could pull out unimpeded. But what a pain in the neck... so now I just throw a big resentment as I pull around. (:o)
Not to defend the double-parker, but ...
is it possible that there was a car in the parking space before the double parker arrived, and it had departed by the time you took this photo?
How?
Maybe a Smart car could get out, but it is simply more likely that the monster mobile driver was just too damn lazy to pull into the space and then pull out again when the kids turned up.
Y'all should come to Mefuh Square when there's doings at the St. Joe's church - parking across somebody's driveway and any and all sidewalk ramps is completely sacred and NOT to be questioned in any way - even for Bingo Nite!
Oh, St. Joe's...
I've driven by there twice recently on Sunday mornings when services were letting out, and boy, do they get cranky when cars have the temerity to drive down the road when the light's green. (I don't mean across the crosswalk, in which case cars still have the right of way, I mean for the whole block.)
Anything's possible
But at the same time, the person made no effort to get into the space, which was definitely large enough for him or her to back into, assuming a knowledge of parallel parking (I know that photos of things like parking spaces can be deceiving sometimes, but I walked past the space and the Behemoth, and, yes, the space was larger than it).
Too tight for the Land Yacht
Only going by the angle of the photo, it looks to me like the open space is only minimally larger than the Suburban. It's another reminder of how impractical these vehicles really are.
Circular logic
I asked someone once why so many people double park in front of empty, available street spaces in Southie. He told me that it's because no one wants to get boxed in by...double-parkers.
not just double
Go down East Broadway in Southie at lunchtime and if there's enough double parkers, people will TRIPLE park with nothing between their car and the curb but the grease spots and air. I think those are the folks that can't parallel park between double-parked cars. But the rest, I agree 100%, they double park in front of an empty space so double parkers don't box them in. After all, they're only gonna be a few minutes.
Some people are just dumb
Some people are just dumb too. Once I parked cars for my colleges graduation ceremony. Since parking lots were pretty limited we quickly began parking people on the lawns. And like every parking lot on earth we parked the cars in a two car "column" with empty space before the first car and after the second car. So the front car can pull out straight and the back one can back out. Well I can't tell you how many times I'd have a car pull in to the front of one of these columns, with a full aisle of empty space in front of them and have them ask "You're not going to park us in are you?" Why do you think we left all that empty space there, dimwad?