A rant for Monday. My house is on the corner lot, front of the house faces the "long side" of the lot. I've got 200 feet of unbroken curb and sidewalk to manage (my driveway enters the lot from a mid-block alley).
I rarely park on the street, but sometimes do to give the kids more room to play on the driveway or in the carport. Parking is not a problem here - nearly every house has a garage and most have driveways/carports. That said since the garages/driveways are often to the rear and on a different level (we're on a mountain) many people prefer to park on the street. For the past few weeks I've had a crappy boat sitting on the street directly in front of my front door. It's the focal point of my view from my living room picture window. It's about 12' feet long, sitting on a crappy trailer and covered with a crappy green tarp. The guy that (I assume) owns it has taken to parking his (not as) crappy pick-up truck in front of it. I think they're "fixing it up": the truck has two bass chairs in the back and what seems like extra parts. Periodically he gets out there "working" on the thing. Him and another guy, in the same brown shorts EVERYTIME, with no shirts and a six-pack. I've never seen the cover off the boat, but they'll sit out there talking for hours at a time. Yesterday his friend pulled his jeep up. They proceeded to work out there for most of the day: the friend had the bulk of the Jeep's engine in pieces on my lawn, the guy had stripped the boat's motor (again, the parts on my lawn) and was trying to get it to run (no water... so good luck with that). So all day it was clank-clank! VROOOOOOOM! Chug-sputter, psstp! Now, to be fair, they stopped about 7pm (so no bed times were impacted) and (aside from the oil stains on the street) they picked up their mess. Still... I feel annoyingly put out. The noise, the fact that I couldn't mow my lawn without a confrontation, etc. It's not like it's actually inconveniencing... but it's damn annoying. But not "publically" annoying enough that I feel justified in asking him to move it. You know those things that just grind but never so much that you feel confident about your position on them? Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:263814 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
