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I saw a truly uplifting sight today. It may seem as if I didn't, when I start to explain, but bear with me.
I had just crossed a street where everyone parks. It's a one-way street (though, on the other side of the cross street, it's a two-way street). On the right side of the street, people park at an angle to the curb, as if it's a parking lot. On the left side, they parallel park. There's enough room for one line of traffic. Also, on the left side, some areas are strictly no-parking, and they are market not only with yellow lines on the asphalt, but also with traffic cones that are chained together. One such no-parking zone is next to a fire hydrant, for obvious reasons - well, obvious to all of you, and to me, but not to everyone.
So I had just crossed the street when I noticed a large truck just sitting there. Not parking, not waiting for someone to leave. The driver was sitting there because some genius had parked right next to the no-parking zone and had left the car with its flashers on. This is what made me think of Argabarga and his recent remark that those flashers should show a tiny car being towed by a tiny truck.
I would have paid money to see the driver of the truck (it was a Mercedes dump truck) simply roll right over the car and continue on his merry way, but the cops were there already. One was photographing the car. The truck sat there, with a line of cars behind it, unable to go anywhere.
Just as I was about to photograph this scene, three guys ran to the car. One had a guilty, please-don't-kill-me smile on his face. Yep, he was the driver. One of the cops moved the cones and gestured for the guy to park there, which he did, enabling the truck driver to head on down the street. The last I saw, the cops were busily taking down the driver's information.
This kind of creative parking happens far more often than even Argabarga might think. But maybe he would.
I had just crossed a street where everyone parks. It's a one-way street (though, on the other side of the cross street, it's a two-way street). On the right side of the street, people park at an angle to the curb, as if it's a parking lot. On the left side, they parallel park. There's enough room for one line of traffic. Also, on the left side, some areas are strictly no-parking, and they are market not only with yellow lines on the asphalt, but also with traffic cones that are chained together. One such no-parking zone is next to a fire hydrant, for obvious reasons - well, obvious to all of you, and to me, but not to everyone.
So I had just crossed the street when I noticed a large truck just sitting there. Not parking, not waiting for someone to leave. The driver was sitting there because some genius had parked right next to the no-parking zone and had left the car with its flashers on. This is what made me think of Argabarga and his recent remark that those flashers should show a tiny car being towed by a tiny truck.
I would have paid money to see the driver of the truck (it was a Mercedes dump truck) simply roll right over the car and continue on his merry way, but the cops were there already. One was photographing the car. The truck sat there, with a line of cars behind it, unable to go anywhere.
Just as I was about to photograph this scene, three guys ran to the car. One had a guilty, please-don't-kill-me smile on his face. Yep, he was the driver. One of the cops moved the cones and gestured for the guy to park there, which he did, enabling the truck driver to head on down the street. The last I saw, the cops were busily taking down the driver's information.
This kind of creative parking happens far more often than even Argabarga might think. But maybe he would.
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