(private parking near Inman Square--which, incidentally, is the home of Magnolia, my new favorite Cambridge restaurant)
(laundromat near where I live)
(no parking sign spray painted on wall in theatre district, Boston; includes me with horrible red-eye)
Is it just me, or is the idea that police will take notice not exactly the scariest threat in the world? Even, maybe, does it not seem like much of a threat at all? Every time I see one of these signs I think, "And then what?"
I've never seen one of these signs in the Midwest. (Or if I have, I haven't taken notice.) Is this a Boston area thing? An East Coast thing? A cities larger than Madison thing?
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I thought maybe they were ASKING the police to take notice. As in, "no parking here, c'mon cops, do your job."
I've never seen that before. I've lived in cities bigger than Madison, but never in the Northeast.
I love the "1" after the laundromat's exclamation.
How about No Trespassing signs that proclaim "POSTED" in bold letters? Of course it's posted, it's shellacked onto a tree for cryin' out loud!
I had the same initial reaction as Dan Meyers, and then wondered if there is a police STATION nearby, and if the officers have been parking in the verboten spots.
Took much time trying to park in areas where police took most of the legal and illegal spots, I guess.
... yeah yeah. But before you leave these environs,* take a trip to South Boston Sunday AM and enjoy the double-parking scene on Broadway, brunch at Playwright Bar or Farragut House. Jog (or walk) around Castle Island and see the beauty of Boston Harbor. You are sooooo provincially Harvard Sq. still.
* soon, so soon!
I've never seen signs like those in two years of living in New Haven and six years in New York, which rules out the "East Coast thing" and "cities larger than Madison thing" theories.
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