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The snow-parking czar of Auckland Street
By adamg on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 8:03am
Local Spice posts a copy of a letter that somebody's been taping to doors on Auckland Street in Dorchester about saving parking spaces. "Your neighbor and friend" is very upset about people saving spaces before the snow even starts to fall and long after it starts to melt and sets out exact time periods in which it's fair to save spaces - and only after you've gone to the work of actually digging them out - and concludes:
To all of those who have been honest and respectful thus far, I thank you. To all of those who may have done the aforementioned "spot marking" faux pas, please make a fresh start this year and be a good neighbor by not doing it any more. Auckland Street will be a nicer place to live and we will have one more reason to say why Dorchester is better than Southie!! Have a great 2009!
Devotees of the sport of Boston winter parking will want to set aside a few minutes to read the whole thing.
Perhaps the czar can visit Glendower Road in Roslindale:
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You're too nice Adam, that
You're too nice Adam, that chair would be long gone, or in a thousand pieces, if it were my street.
It's like the barking dog, though
It's not my street, either :-).
On my street, most people don't save "their" spaces, because all the houses have a driveway for at least one car, it's a fairly low-density street and everybody knows each other, so even if you do leave an open space, you don't have to worry about somebody taking your space, except, maybe, when somebody has a party (and that's happened to me exactly once in all the time we've been here; I've had more of a problem with leaving my space then coming back to find a plow has undone all my work and I have to shovel out again).
That having been said, I'm disappointed the neighbors kitty-corner from us are still only using six traffic cones to save "their" two spaces - they'd been increasing the number of cones they use each year for the past few years. Maybe the economy's hit home for them.
It's strange how I never see
It's strange how I never see this kind of thing in Back Bay, I guess the people who have cars there don't drive them out on a daily basis so they just let them sit there until they start icing over and their wheels are also encased. This past Sunday I saw numerous people attempting to just drive out of their spot, it's gonna take a whole lot of floorin! Are people in Back Bay just too lazy to actually shovel out their car? Doesn't matter to me since I don't have one, but it does provide some decent entertainment to see people trying to get out.
I think a lot of the space
I think a lot of the space saving chair crap has to do with class and more specifically class resentments. What have people in the Back Bay got to be angry about? What do old white dudes in Dorchester have to be angry about? They THINK there is plenty--and it is expressed in the only way their inarticulate hearts can--by placing several cones on the street or whatever to claim the territory they imagine they have lost over these last 3 or 4 decades. Or, rather, to claim the territory they have absolutely lost over the last 3 or 4 decades. They are not mistaken about that at any rate.
awesome simpsons reference
awesome simpsons reference
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That's funny stuff.
Wish I had known about it - I saw a note at Shaw's (W. Rox) on a display-stack of Tostito's salsa jars which said
"Stop putting your display in front of my product".
Since it was (when I saw it) in front of other Frito-Lay brand stuff, I assume that the Frito-Lay distributor had earlier committed the faux-pas (or Machiavellian move) of placing it in front of the Wise, or Utz, or some other brand's section of the chip & snack aisle!
comparing Dot people to Southie people.
If you want to motivate people from Dorchester, compare them to people from Southie.
I used to play in some wicked Basketball games in Southie when the boys from Dorchester arrived. Death match 2000. Actually, mostly just good playground basketball but no love lost.