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Citizen complaint of the day: Grumpy school-department worker is grumpy

Grumpy mini-van

Well, maybe if you were assigned a mini-van from the city motor pool, you'd be grumpy, too, but in any case, a blocked-in citizen reports from a parking lot on Commercial Street in the North End:

Spots were available, yet the school employee chose to block the whole lot, didn't respond to honking, and then yelled at the people he had trapped in the lot when he finally came out.

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He's special. He's better than you. And he can't be fired. He can do whatever he wants.

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so I can't lol with ya.

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Complaining about their neighbors using their private roofdeck.

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apparently the people in the North End think that they own school department parking lots. Maybe if you losers didn't take up spaces in the school lot he would have a place to park. I'd block you in also and walk back to Court Street.

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Back in the day, the motor pool used to have spots in the City Hall garage--makes sense, right? But, some important people wanted their own parking spaces so the motor pool spaces were moved out of the garage to Court Square.

Problem? The parking spaces were never, ever enforced unless you called BTD. You'd get a car from the motor pool, drive to your meeting and back, and then it was anyone's guess as to where you're going to park when you returned. Sometimes we had to call BTD to get someone towed out of one of our spaces. And, yeah, we had to wait around with the car for BTD to show up. A good use of taxpayer money, if I ever heard of one.

I once ended up parking a motor pool car in a space that was two or three spaces up from the sanctioned spaces. The next day someone called me, frantic that the car I had used the day before had been stolen or that I hadn't returned it. I explained where it was, the car was found, and that marked the very last time I used a car from the motor pool.

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The lot is a school parking lot, reserved for school parking from 6am -6:30pm. After that it is residential, a sensible use of the lot. If it was during the school hours, getting blocked in was a risk that driver took. They could have been towed instead.

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