But so anyway you're driving around and you decide you need to drop by and visit with someone in a downtown building. But there's not enough parking space behind this darn mail truck (Don't worry, they'll be cancelling mail delivery shortly...) and you're in a hurry cuz you are always in a hurry and you decide instead to just put half your truck up on the side walk. But you're a swell guy. You left enough space so people can squeeze by. Well, but maybe not if somebody is using a wheel chair. But hey! You deserve to make your own space and nobody should deny that. Besides, I heard they are going to make yelling at obnoxious pick-up truck drivers an act of Domestic Terrorism. A hate crime. Sure wish they made Cyber Trucks with diesel engines. I'd get me one. They'll let you park those anywhere.
Thoughts conjured up while dodging pick-up trucks in the process of owning the sidewalks... safety first. You betcha.
That sums up the current situation perfectly. Wish I'd written it myself.
ReplyDeleteThanks. It just came to me as I was dodging a 7,000 pound truck on a sidewalk.... your truly.
DeleteYears ago we lived in the Lower Pacific Heights neighborhood in San Francisco, where street parking could be challenging. People with upscale cars started parking their cars fully on the sidewalks, parallel to the roadway, because why should they be inconvenienced. This often meant pedestrians had to walk in busy streets to get by. One day I walked past a Jaguar parked on the sidewalk. It had had a beautiful black paint job, until someone keyed it from stem to stern. The frequency of sidewalk parking decreased noticeably after that.
ReplyDeleteCould easily reverse into that space, too. Has mirrors, a rearview camera and probably parking sensors to boot.
ReplyDeleteNo. He's right up over the curb and there is no parking space behind him. The curb cuts in only partially and if he wasn't on the sidewalk he'd be hanging out in the lane of traffic. Optical illusion?
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