Notice the trend? the traffic is ALL parked going UP the hill....like they are supposed to, then you have these three parked in the wrong direction. ARGH, it is so annoying! Parking the wrong way makes it so they take up more space than they should. Its dangerous to go in/out of spots like this. To me this is just plain LAZY! Besides...its not like they are just *running in* to grab something. I live here....and I see them parked like this the next morning. I'm not the traffic police, but sometimes I wish I could go out and ticket their sorry asses.
Its just that there is not nearly enough parking in my neighborhood, much less when people park without utilizing the space effectively. Part of me wants to *map out* parkins spaces down the road. AND yell at the people who park on the street when they have their *own* driveway. So it makes people like me, without a driveway to suffer. They have no qualms of parking in their driveway during snow induced parking bans...or when its a wednesday night (street cleaners block off certain streets every week depending on the day) and we can't park on our street. Why does that make any sort of a difference when its the regular day?
As it is, because of these assholes if you even consider coming home after 6pm...goodluck to being able to park anywhere near your house, and if you have groceries or other such crap to carry into the house....sucks to be you.
Pet Peeve number two:
People leaving large amounts of ungawdly TRASH wherever they see fit.....ARGH! WHY on earth would you think it customary to put a rather ugly peice of funiture on the sidewalk, when its raining....Obviously no one is going to claim it as a cool peice and take it home....So now I have to look at this peice of crap for however long it takes for someone to get rid of it. The city provides a *big trash day* as we call it, where they will take large peices like this to the dump...free of charge. What a thought!!!! To bad its atleast another TWO MONTHS before they begin this yearly ritual.....
Which I do enjoy. Even though there is a lot of the above crap EVERYWHERE, like practically in front of every house, and definately in front of every apartment building. You can find some really cool stuff! I found a really nice set of shelving that fit perfectly into my then disorganized closet! I also found a really nice set of muffin pans, a tall plant in a really nice pot, plenty of pretty plant pots, canvases of ugly paintings that I could *reuse* (meaning paint over ha!), etc.
So thats what I saw today that really sorta annoyed me, and added to the many reasons why I hate living in Portland, and how desperately I need to leave this place. But while we are stuck with our current home in need of many repairs, I can bitch, do some home renovations and dream of the day I can leave this place and live on a pretty little farm in the country :).
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