Jerk-ism

[peter grimes]

Touchê!

 

[Akka]

My ticket was $55, his was $115

Correct me if I misunderstand the situation : you prevented someone to go back to his house, which forced him to keep his car in the street, and then managed to make him get a ticket because of it ?

 

[Hygro]

That is, indeed, why Peter told this story as an example of how he is a jerk, not a hero

We just can't help but cheer for him.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Well, the guy obviously thought that the space in front of his driveway somehow belonged to him...and he is the one who called in the cops. Yet another proof that there is no situation so bad that calling the cops won't make it worse.

 

[peter grimes]

Correct me if I misunderstand the situation : you prevented someone to go back to his house, which forced him to keep his car in the street, and then managed to make him get a ticket because of it ?

No. This is in the city. Some property owners have chosen to give up their little front yard in exchange for an off-street private parking spot. These spaces usually have a gate, and a curb-cut in the sidewalk to ease the car moving from the street to the concrete sidewalk and parking space.

Gates have signs on them indicating that parking there will result in the car being towed.

I parked on the street just in front of his curb-cut. I could see that this person didn't use their off-street parking space for a car, as there was a snowman there. But someone had cleared a parking space out of the snowbank - so I parked in the open parking space.

What we discovered is that the property owner was parking on the street in front of his own driveway, using the off-street parking for a snowman encampment.

He chose to double park in the travel lane blocking me into "his" spot. That's what he got a ticket for. The way it works here is that anyone is free to park in any legal spot. There are no protected on-street parking spots. So when I took "his" spot, he blew a gasket an parked me in, and called the cops to whine about someone blocking his non-useable driveway.

Does that make sense? He could have parked anywhere for free and walked home, no harm no foul. But he chose to double park like a jerk.

 

[Farm Boy]

So the driveway renders one private parking space off of the street and eliminates one one-street parking spot by putting a driveway access into the curb. In a fit of winter spirit, a person builds a snowman in the private space, then lays(possibly tacky) claim to the parking spot that is "returned" to the street due to the winter spirit, thus occupying exactly the same amount of space on the side of the street as if the private parking space had a truck in it instead of a snowman? And disagreement is about the homeowner getting bent when the inevitable parking vulture comes along in the city?

 

[Terxpahseyton]

People can be weird when it comes to parking.
The street in front of my current residence is a bit small, so that it is not a good idea to have cars parked on it on both sides.
Two weeks or so ago my car and another car on the opposing side where not parked that way, but they were a bit too close to each other to call it a comfortable distance. Yet, the space left was still a fair space for any car passing through. But as said admittedly a bit uncomfortable.
There is no history if this happening at my residence, and it only lasted for three hours so.
The street is also extremely non-busy (only people living at it use it to begin with, and it is a short street) and the allowed speed very low (30 km/h).
Yet someone felt the need to use the horn and one (perhaps the same person, don't know) even put a note beneath of the other car's wiper.

When I was told someone had honked the horn I immediately got out to move my car. When I saw the actual gap, and then the note at the other car, I almost had not moved my car out of sheer spite. I did so anyway because well what the hell. But the reaction seemed very jerkish.
And it also generally bugs me if people take the time to write a dame note instead of just ringing at the door bell.

Which reminds me of when I lived at another place how the guy living beneath my apartment put a note into a shoe in front of our door instead of just freaking talking to us. That really really bugged me.

 

[Borachio]

Sooo, pretty much how a lot of men interact with women?

Whoa!

If a woman really wants me to get obsessed with her, all she needs to do is shun me. Repeatedly. With increasing scorn.

Anyway, enough about me.

Car ownership in cities is really strange. High density population centres don't really favour individual car ownership in the current numbers, imo. Aren't we reaching breaking point? Or maybe 2 seater electric vehicles would be more sensible.

 

[Gori the Grey]

If a woman really wants me to get obsessed with her, all she needs to do is shun me. Repeatedly. With increasing scorn.

You sound like a Renaissance sonneteer.

 

[Borachio]

Yeah. I would be if I could write sonnets. (Unlike some of us, Mr Grey. Paint me envious.)

But if there's one thing I learned early on with women: they generally take "poetry" very badly. Seems they think I'm weird enough as is, without the help of any lame rhymes.

 

[Gori the Grey]

If I ran a "Let's Write a Sonnet" thread, would you be interested? Would anybody else, I wonder.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

If I ran a "Let's Write a Sonnet" thread, would you be interested? Would anybody else, I wonder.

I would...but I'm easy.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Correct me if I misunderstand the situation : you prevented someone to go back to his house, which forced him to keep his car in the street, and then managed to make him get a ticket because of it ?

He already couldn't go back to his house. A snowman was living in the driveway.

Yeah. I would be if I could write sonnets. (Unlike some of us, Mr Grey. Paint me envious.)

But if there's one thing I learned early on with women: they generally take "poetry" very badly. Seems they think I'm weird enough as is, without the help of any lame rhymes.

If I ran a "Let's Write a Sonnet" thread, would you be interested? Would anybody else, I wonder.

*ahem* Gentlemen, there is a poetry thread in the Arts & Entertainment forum, or feel free to start a new one there for writing poems, rather than merely discussing them.

 

[Borachio]

If I ran a "Let's Write a Sonnet" thread, would you be interested? Would anybody else, I wonder.

Sure. But sonnets are amazingly difficult to write, imo. (Judging from the one occasion when I tried, that is.)

I have enough trouble with expressing myself in prose. That's when I've anything at all to say, of course.

 

[bhsup]

I just realized everyone is assuming the driver built the snowman. What if it was one of his kids and he was unaware and would have just plowed it down to get into his driveway? We was driving a big ol' pickup truck, after all, and not some pansy Chevy Aveo that would probably crumple when contacting a snowman.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I just realized everyone is assuming the driver built the snowman. What if it was one of his kids and he was unaware and would have just plowed it down to get into his driveway? We was driving a big ol' pickup truck, after all, and not some pansy Chevy Aveo that would probably crumple when contacting a snowman.

If he's the kind of guy who runs over his kids' snowman he deserved the ticket anyway.

 

[bhsup]

Oh, no argument there. I just wanted to point out that the snowman may well have been irrelevant to the owner of the driveway.

 

[Farm Boy]

Well, the timeframe is a bit flexible too. If you can't park because somebody wants to play by letter instead of spirit then you just have to bite the bullet and pull your kid's snowman down. Then you've done it "right."