Tag Archive: car

Dear Public Safety Parking Nazi Scum Sucker

I must be on some kind of hit list with Public Safety here. My first hint was when I sometimes parked somewhere deep in the back when nothing else was available on the side streets, thinking everything was gravy. What I didn’t know was that the spots there were reserved, but the numbers had since…

Leaving New York, $1500 Poorer

So what started out as a $20 oil change eventually turned into a $1500 job to fix my car. I stumbled out of the dealership, pale white and in a daze, wondering if this is what it must have felt like to have the life force vacu-sucked out of you by The Mummy, right before…

The Vacation Day From Hell

Hicklike Court Building

I spent the night at Ticonderoga (home of Fort Ticonderoga) before deciding to head out to Lake Placid the next day. Vermont was gorgeous, but I couldn’t decide on any place to stay, so I went for the familiar and hopped back over to NY for the remainder of my trip. I got up, feeling…

Remembering my own personal recession

You could have had my pizza anytime, baby....

With all the news about the economy being in the toilet and people left and right losing their jobs (and unable to find new ones), I’m reminded of the personal recession I once experienced shortly after I graduated college, waaaaaay back in ’98. I had just wrapped up my undergraduate “career” and finished with a…

Spiraling along in my automobile…

We had been hit with a snow storm this morning and I was already 30 minutes late for work, but I wasn’t worried. After all my SUV has traction control and all wheel drive. My black stallion ride was absolutely made for days like this. :-D I pulled out of the parking lot, hit the…

There’s a Moon Out Tonight!

christmas display

Well actually, it was last night. Well the night before, whatever. Anyways, true to my promise, I took a trek out into the great unknown, and right away I knew the night was going to be trouble. I first made a stop at a gas mart that had a Dunkin’ Donuts, where two Hispanic guys…

“Excuse me sir, you can’t park here.”

So I’m getting out of my car and about to walk inside when a public safety vehicle stops in front of me. “Excuse me sir, is this your space?” I looked at my car. “Well it’s usually where I park. Why?” “This is a reserved parking space. You’ll have to move.” “Really? It doesn’t say…

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