My Vendettas

I hate street sweepers. Every Tuesday and Wednesday, I have to search for parking because half the street is getting cleaned between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m. (Why not noon? Most people are at work then!) and there is SOMETIMES a rare 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. sweeping, but those spots get taken quick, along with the other streets.

Last week I thought I had found a spot ("holy crap! this street side gets swept on THURSDAY!") only to find out the next morning via parking ticket #4 that I could not park there between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. weekdays. Impedes the flow of traffic, apparently.

Parking is so damn hard that I attempted to squeeze in behind an SUV and some trash cans, only to receive parking ticket #3 for parking two inches into a red zone. I have a damn Geo Metro. The car is only like 5 feet long anyway, give me a damn inch!

What bugs me most is that the street doesn't even look clean. Last week, during a routine okay-let's-get-up-early-to-move-the-car-for-an-hour drive, I happened to park in an area right before the sweeper got there. Seeing the sweeper down the block, I decided to drive around the block and park there as soon as it had finished. So... I drive around, and return. And what do I see in the road?

Garbage. The same garbage that had been there before the street was swept. Oh, and a long streak of something (water?? looked too gross) on the pavement.

Frankly, it's pretty damn irritating to have to constantly worry about parking and parking tickets, when the streets are just as clean as the alleys, which don't get swept at all.

Can I sue yet? Or do I just have to keep paying these fines for this broke-ass state as the poor get punished for the mistakes of their politicians?

Yeah, I said it. Rich people can afford their own damn parking spaces.